Starting a new game

In this section, we will make a start by coding our game. Like every project, starting is usually quite difficult, with the first decision being simply where to begin. A reasonable approach is to find a user story that will begin to flesh out the structure of the code. Once we have a reasonable structure for an application, it becomes much easier to figure out where new code should be added.

Given this, we can make a good start by considering what needs to happen when we start a new game. This must set things up ready to play and so will force some critical decisions to be made.

The first user story to work on is starting a new game:

• As a player I want to start a new game so that I have a new word to guess

When we start a new game, we must do the following:

1. Select a word at random from the available words to guess
2. Store the selected word so that scores for guesses can be calculated
3. Record that the player may now make an initial...