A game of Madlibs – Hana – Introduction to Interactive Media

I decided to use the word randomizer task as a way to make a fun game of madlibs.

I loaded all words from a .csv file, and categorized them appropriately. Then I printed the text onto the canvas, leaving spaces for the words which will be chosen by the program and distinguishing them with a red font.

Here is an example of how the specific words are chosen randomly:

//function which randomly chooses and returns a verb through the use of random integers

function chooseVerb() {

let num = int(random(verbs.length));

return verbs[num];

}

//function which randomly chooses and returns a verb through the use of random integers function chooseVerb() { let num = int(random(verbs.length)); return verbs[num]; }

//function which randomly chooses and returns a verb through the use of random integers
function chooseVerb() {
  let num = int(random(verbs.length));
  return verbs[num];
}

This same function is repeated for nouns and adjectives as well. This function itself returns the word and I use the returned value to print onto the canvas:

//putting the paragraph together and printing it on the canvas

function printMadLibs() {

text("Summer is all about the beach! During the daytime, you can ", 10, 20);

fill("red");

text(chooseVerb(), 335, 20);

fill("black");

text("in the lake or sea and collect seashells and ", 10, 40);

fill("red");

text(chooseNoun(), 245, 40);

//putting the paragraph together and printing it on the canvas function printMadLibs() { text("Summer is all about the beach! During the daytime, you can ", 10, 20); fill("red"); text(chooseVerb(), 335, 20); fill("black"); text("in the lake or sea and collect seashells and ", 10, 40); fill("red"); text(chooseNoun(), 245, 40); . . .

//putting the paragraph together and printing it on the canvas
function printMadLibs() {
  text("Summer is all about the beach! During the daytime, you can ", 10, 20);
  fill("red");
  text(chooseVerb(), 335, 20);
  fill("black");
  text("in the lake or sea and collect seashells and ", 10, 40);
  fill("red");
  text(chooseNoun(), 245, 40);
.
.
.

This was a very fun program to work on since it is based on the popular game of Madlibs. Each time you refresh it will have a new set of words chosen randomly, and sometimes they are very funny, other times they make no sense.

This was the first time I have done any sort of file manipulation in JavaScript, so I am happy to have learned how to do it. I mainly used the class notes and P5 reference page to figure things out.

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