eviltrout/emberpress

A clone of the LetterPress word game in EmberJS

Emberpress

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This is a clone of the popular Letterpress game. It is meant to show off the client side powers of the EmberJS framework and was originally created for Toronto EmberJS meetup by Evil Trout.

Mucho thanks go out Loren Brichter for the inspiration. Thanks to the EmberJS team for making an awesome framework that makes client side development fun. The dictionary was imported from EOWL. The icons are from Font Awesome.

emberpress's Issues

finishGame() does not account for possibility of tie

While it is impossible to tie in regular gameplay given the size of the board (this can be proved mathematically), it is possible to tie if both players skip turns consecutively, and their scores are tied. finishGame() does not account for this (as a result, when the second player tries to skip his/her turn, nothing happens).

Multiple error messages shown for invalid word

Since the played words are represented by a list, there are multiple error messages shown whenever a word that is a prefix of multiple played words is played.

For example, suppose the words PANGS and PANGRAM have been played. Then, suppose the next player plays the word PANG. In this case, two error messages that say, "That word can't be played," are shown - one for violating "PANGS", and the other for violating "PANGRAM". This gets worse if there's a lot of prefixes. For instances, suppose "HERONS", "HERON", "HERO", "HER", and "HE" have been played. If somebody tries to play "HE" again, there will be 5 error messages shown!

One way to fix this is by simply representing the played words as a prefix trie (or, by keeping track of whether a violation has already been reported)