Dice Guessing Game Primer Tutorial
There are many HTML Entities based around punctuation that can add to the means by which you communicate ideas with your web applications.
In today’s new (up to two player) Dice Game, we use some of these to represent the numbers from 1 to 6 on the faces of the dice, similar to how you may have seen this happen with dice in various games you play, or hanging from your car’s front visor perhaps?
We’d welcome your try out of this Dice Guessing Game, and feel free to tell us what you think (or if its two of you “tell us what you think” … huh?!). Its HTML and Javascript and CSS underpinning its functionality can be perused by downloading the dice_game.html link. If you do, you’ll see the mildly interesting scoring system, that can be explained via the equation …
[CorrectAnswerScoreIncrement] = (7 - [NumberOfPossibilitiesInFull36PossibilitiesSet])
… allowing for the incorporation of this Javascript array initialization …
var probabilities=[0,0,1,2,3,4,5,6,5,4,3,2,1]; // score will be 7-guessValue
… that we were capable of working out ourselves but were reassured by the mathematics of this very useful link, thanks.
Another game thought unique to how we do things that has been introduced today, is that a user can change the default player names, those being Player1 and Player2 via an HTML div element utilizing the contenteditable=”true” global HTML attribute to make it look readable, but be also “quietly” editable.
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