No Game Engine Game Dev: Word Sleuth 044: Highscores

Streamed on 2024-09-05 (https://www.twitch.tv/thediscouragerofhesitancy)

Game Engines are for sissies!

Today we finished up most of the Highscores work. We wrote out the Highscores files and read them back in. Inserting replays works, as does removing unused replays. We were pretty close yesterday, so it was mostly just finishing the plumbing and testing.

Then we had everything we needed to actually show highscores. The same file reading was used, and the rest of the time was just spent building up and refining the display of the data. We can also launch a replay from the highscores. It's looking pretty good. There are two open items for highscores still (like everyone is named "Harvey"), but the functionality came together pretty quickly.