This is an exercise project made for the course DIM0120 and has the objective of generating random Battleship puzzles, with varying m x n dimensions according to user input, in which several different sized boats are placed in a one-sided naval war game. The boats sizes and quantities are as follow:
- Battleship, size 4 boat, 1.
- Destroyer, size 3 boat, 2.
- Cruiser, size 2 boat, 3.
- Submarine, size 1 boat, 4.
The objective, for the player, is to find out where the ships are spreaded in the board based on minimal information given by the program regarding to a few boats placings, such as some empty tiles, some boat tiles and the number of boat pieces in any given row or column. When the player correctly marks the position of all boats, the game is won.
To download and use this program, please clone the repository to your environment, then open the terminal in the corresponding file and use the command Make.
Afterwards bash the executable file with ./BattleON [<options>] <number_of_puzzle_tables>, where:
Facultative parameters:
- --row (same results with -r, --r, -row):
Allows the user to set the row dimension of the matrix. If used, requires a number to be given representing the
desired dimension or the program won't run. The row dimension must be in the range [7,16], and any value smaller or
higher than that will not be allowed. If not provided, defaults to 10.
- --col (same results with -c, --c, -col):
Allows the user to set the column dimension of the matrix. If used, requires a number to be given representing the
desired dimension or the program won't run. The column dimension must be in the range [7,16], and any value smaller
or higher than that will not be allowed. If not provided, defaults to 10.
Required parameter:
- Number of puzzles:
Allows the user to set the number of puzzles to be generated, and must be in the range[1,100] and any value
smaller or higher than that will not be allowed. Can't be ignored and the program will not run unless given.
When generating smaller tables, specially if the number of rows and/or columns is smaller than 9, generation may occur slowly due to the incapacity of finding appropriate placings for the boats. The program will keep running until the suitable tables are generated. On 7x7 tables this will most likely take a while. If using the terminal and the program gets stuck, use Ctrl+C to finish the execution. Any table that had already been filled will be safely stored.