🕯️ Dark Ritual Hangman

A cursed reimagining of the classic Hangman game — where each wrong guess pulls you deeper into the abyss, and each correct guess reveals fragments of a dark fantasy tale.
This is not just a game. It’s a ritual.

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✨ Features

🏮 Cursed Main Menu

• Animated navigation with arrow keys (↑ ↓ Enter)
• Options:
  • Begin the Ritual (start new game)
  • Reignite the Curse (play agian)
  • Read the Curse (instructions)
  • Blood Stained records (high scores)
  • Abandon Hope (quit)

🔮 Difficulty Levels

• Easy → Easy words & hints
• Medium → Trickier word bank
• Hard → Words designed to end you

⚔️ Dark Story Integration

• Correct guesses reveal the lore of a forbidden curse.
• Wrong guesses summon the animated hangman drawing with ASCII art.

🪦 Animated Effects

• Typewriter effect for suspenseful dialogues.
• Dark-themed ASCII art for wrong guesses.
• Banner-like ASCII reveal for achievements or victories.

📜 Extras

• Credits section styled as The Summoner’s Journal.
• Score saving in scoreboard.txt.
• Cross-platform terminal handling (Windows/Linux).

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🖼️ Screenshots (ASCII Preview)

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🛠️ Installation & Run

Clone the repo

git clone https://github.com/your-username/dark-ritual-hangman.git
cd dark-ritual-hangman

Compile & Run (linux/WSL/MacOs)

gcc hangman.c -o hangman
./hangman

Compile & Run (Windows MinGW)

gcc hangman.c -o hangman.exe
hangman.exe

For direct running from any device

Click Here and run the app from preview tab and then navigate to the terminal tab to play the game.
In the terminal tab, point your cursor just below the screen where the writing of the game ends.
⚠️Not available now

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🎮 Controls

• ↑ ↓ → Navigate Menu
• Enter → Select Option
• A-Z or a-z → Guess Letters

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⚡ Project Structure

Hangman_Game_in_C/
├── main.c # Main cursed source code
├── scoreboard.txt # Saved scores
├── assets # Contains images and demo videos related to the game
├ ├── welcome-screen.png
├ ├── main-menu.png
├ ├── main-menu.png
├ ├── credits-screen.png
├ └── scoreboard-file-overview.mp4
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├── .gitignore # Contains files to be ignored
└── README.md # This file

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📖 Credits

🙋 Coder:
Debarpan Roy (a.k.a DRoy-007 or Code Surgeon)

🎨 Story & Lore:
Inspired by ancient curses, haunted forests, and a love for the gothic.
Storyline is generated by ChatGPT.

💻 Programming & Spell-Coding:
Written in C using raw terminal magic, emoji glyphs, and blood rituals.

🎭 Special Thanks:
🦴 Bugs (for keeping the thrill alive)
🐍 Terminal escape sequences (for that cursed animation touch)
🧍‍♀️ 🧍‍♂️ Parents for supporting me (for the knowledge and things to code)

🩸 This game was forged in the shadows — to learn, to entertain, and to whisper dark tales through code...

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⚰️ License

This project is licensed under the MIT License.
Use it, twist it, summon it in your own way — but beware the curse you awaken.

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