My last shipment failed because I was getting the user to manually state when they win. While this was intentional, as in real life, part of Connect 4 and Tic Tac Toe (noughts and crosses) is keeping track. However, I like the suggestion, and the 2 games that didn’t have win detection now do. Now I believe I am ready to ship. This project was supposed to be a small code I was writing for me to learn Python skills, but it has turned out much bigger than I expected, and now I am proud of that implementation, so I am going to ship again :)

Hopefully time to ship!

I have done some of the final touches, and I got it on pypi, so it can now be installed using pip command:
pip install charlie-game-compendium
and run using:
charlie-games

I have completed the tic tac toe game and leaderboard. The overall shell of the game is complete :)

I have fixed lots of the problems with the game failing on bad values, and have started the Tic Tac Toe game (and the number guesser which is very easy compared to the others), which works in a similar way to the Connect 4 game.

I completely forgot to do development logs!! So frustrated but I will try to name my progress over the 8 hours of work. I have recorded what the game does now, it doesn’t work on most boundary cases and there are a lot of ways to break it, such as saying a number too high in Connect 4 creates an uncaught IndexError. However, I am just proud to get a Connect 4 board that renders the positions of the tokens, and makes sure they fall to the bottom. It also stores the leaderboard in a text file in a slightly weird looking syntax I created. Also, the user name is saved.

I’ve got the basics sorted, a laid out plan and have started the menu. My main highlight so far has been getting the file checking working, so it greets the user by it’s name if they have it stored in the user data file and otherwise it catches it rather than crashing on FileNotFoundError.