#New Dictionary Feature & Bug Fixes!

We are back!

School finally caught up to me so things slowed down over the last week, but I think I’m back! So lets get started!

New Dictionary Feature

One thing I’ve wanted to add for a while was a way to look up the definition for the current word. So now using a this free API I added this feature. It still has some small polishing things that need to be done but overall it pretty much done.

Bug Fixes

I also took some time todo some bug fixing. Most of them originated from added the Timed Mode like leaderboards displaying scores incorrectly and medium difficulty level progress being saved in timed mode. Another bug that I fixed was UI scaling. When you play WordChains on a phone, the buttons and everything can be really small. It only took some changes to the project settings but it was very needed as the end goal is for WordChains to be on the app store!

##Puzzle Generation
One small thing that I also worked on was making levels more normal. The way levels are generated is by picking random words from the dictionary that I’m using, and seeing if they connect. This gets us to have some really weird words. I wrote a little program in python to clean up the words but checking if the word use frequency was above a certain level. This hasn’t been implemented yet but it hopefully will be in the coming week.

Thanks for reading!

I’ve been trying to put more effort into these devlogs, plus I haven’t posted in over a week so wanted to let everyone know what’s going on with WordChains! If you want to play it you can do so here although this version doesn’t have all the new features yet. You can follow the project to be notifed when it does though!