#Fallout Terminal

by Kaia

Recreation of the hacking minigame in fallout 4

I learned

• How to spoof terminal cursor movements using jquery event handlers
• How to randomize a wordlist with variable filler characters
• How to generate a list of similar words from a large pool of words

Skills used

• AngularJS
• JavaScript
• jQuery
• AJAX
• HTML5
• CSS3

User Stories

• I can start a game with 16 randomized words, one of which is the password
• I can guess which word is the password
• If I get a correct guess, I'm shown a winning screen
• If my guess is incorrect, I'm shown a 'likeness' score depending on how similar the word is to the password
• If I get 4 wrong guesses without a reset, I'm shown a losing screen
• I can find 'hacks' in the code, non-word characters enclosed by a set of brackets
• I can select these hacks to get an incorrect word removed or my tries reset
• I can see my selection output on the sidebar
• On the game over screen or the win screen I can press enter to play again

Progress

• Working randomization and display
• Working cursor movement
• cursor recognizes and highlights full words
• make cursor recognize and highlight bracketed items
• select word
• remove dud function
• guess function that compares to password and returns matching characters
• sidebar text
• completion screen/ game over screen
• randomize words
• make random words similar

Next Steps

• Typing effect
• typing sounds
• change diffuculty