Guidle: Processing 3.5.4: Java
I started this project a short time after starting to play wordle daily; the reason being I wanted to make an AI for the game but I heard that the New York Times was buying it (and will likely make it paid soon). So instead I just decided to make my own before making an AI, so here is my totally not Wordle copy, the original idea, Guidle (2026 now with autonomous player!)
My code is getting cleaner and cleaner now that I’m taking a real college comp sci class. Guidle has 4 classes; main, Line, Space and onScreenKey. Each Line object has 5 spaces and a y value for where to draw it. I navigate where the user is with a simple array with index 0 being the line and index 1 being the space in the line.
Spaces have an X, Y, a letter, a color and then other variables that have to do with animations. The way I do animations in the game is actually pretty cool imo, basically I mess with the x and y by certain amounts over time to change where the spaces draw. The shake animation basically swings the spaces left and right by changing the x by an increasing magnitude which is increased every 6 frames, meaning each swing is bigger than the last. The answer checking animation accelerates the spaces to the right by a factor of the displacement from its original X position, meaning as the spaces get farther to the right they get faster, until they reach the edge to which I set them in a negative value where they slow down by that same displacement, getting slower as they reach the original position. The graph of X/Frame would be exponential.
The word list is a biiig string that contains all of the words I found from the wordle database for words that exist and words the program chooses to set for solving(shorter).
The on screen key class extends space so it has the x, y, color and letter and it uses the x and y and mouse events to see when the user interacts with them (home cooked buttons).
This is a lot of text, but all in all the way I set up this project was very intuitive and I like where I’m going in terms of design for my programs.
- Boolean ManualPlay on line 13 can be set for if you want to regularly play the game, using the keyboard or onscreen keyboard. You can also press space bar to toggle between autonomous and manual play (some bugs may occur if going back and forth)
- Default framerate is max (set to 3000 but probably just matches the max java processing handles) - normal is 30 from what I used to actually "play" the game. Set framerate on line 20 in Guidle.pde.
- if you want to change the size of the application, change gamesize on line 14, and size on line 19 in Guidle.pde
- Toggle what shows in console by setting boolean testing on line 15 in Guidle.pde. testing=true will show only every testsPerWord tests, showing the stats of the given word after running all tests. Having this option on will show every test, what line it won on and show the tests as they run. If testing is off, when you finish a game, it'll copy the game results to your clipboard similar to how Wordle does.
- startingWords on line 20 is where you can set what starting words you want to test. All words will play games against randonly chosen words, using the same solver logic for good comparison.
- testsPerWord on line 22 sets the number of games to allow for word in startingWords. After reaching this number on the first startingWord, it'll print the word's stats and go to the second, then repeat.
Lines of Code: ~675
Hours spent: ~20
Lmk if u have questions!