THY MATEY TRANSLATOR

Inspiration

This was inspired by an app I saw online where you have to choose your phone number with a number sliders

What it does

It replaces normal words with more pirate appropriate vocabulary. However, rather than typing out your own words, you get to choose from a selection of 10,000 words. It might take a while for you to get the words you want. Don't worry! They are in alphabetical order, and you can skip into any word you want (assuming you know which number it correspond with). The rarer your translations, the more points you get!

How we built it

When the program is first initialized, it reads from the text file containing all 10,000 words. It also contains many lists which contain the special words that will always be translated. When the played submits their answer, the program check every if every word is one of the special word, or if the random function is at the user's favor, and adds points accordingly. If the player gets the high score, it will also write it in the text file. The one in GitHub is my personal high score.

Challenges we ran into

It became very clear very quickly how dawning it would be trying to find so many words that could fit the translations I came up with. Even towards the end, I still found brand new words I never considered putting before, and I am sure they were many I missed. However, I am proud for the significant amount I got, and it was fun writing them all down.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

As my first hackathon, I am very proud that I saw this through the end. I normally take a long time to do a lot of things, so the fact that I was able to do everything I needed to do within the short time period is something I am proud of accomplishing.