This game is a version of the widely popular Hangman. As in all other Hangman games, your goal is to guess the letters that make up a word. If you make five wrong guesses, you lose the game!
The Terminal at the bottom displays information about the current game, such as the current word and available letters. You can guess letters by typing them into the Terminal with your keyboard (unfortunately, mobile browsers are not supported at this time). The Terminal should always respond to your input, but if it doesn't appear to be working, try clicking anywhere on the page before typing again.
After only a short time, more text will have been printed to the terminal than can fit in the viewable area. However, you can scroll up through old messages with your mouse scroll wheel or by clicking and dragging the blue scroll bar.
The Game Area is the Antarctic scene that takes up most of the screen. Just like the stick man and gallows pole of other Hangman games, it tells you how close you are to losing the game. Each wrong guess causes the iceberg to sink a little bit more. Penguins, being clumsy and defenseless creatures, prefer to stay on stable ground when the water is full of big dangerous things with sharp teeth.
This game was "a just for fun" project that I made to get some practice with modern Web graphics and animation technologies. If you're interested in those things, keep reading!
All of the game's graphics are SVG shapes. SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) is a standard for representing images that uses shapes, lines, and coordinates instead of pixels. This means that they can scale to any possible resolution - see this in action by resizing your browser window!
All of the animations and logic for this game were written in JavaScript. Though most of this code is my own, I'm dependent on several libraries.