/Battleships

Year 1 Project for Introduction to Programming at FMI

Primary LanguageC++

Battleships

Pre-game

Compilation

  • The binary can be compiled by running make or mkdir bin && g++ lib/*.cpp src/main.cpp -o bin/battleships.out (or .exe if on Windows1) from the project root

Using preset boards (optional)

  • Preset boards are to be defined at ./res/presetBoard1.txt and ./res/presetBoard2.txt in plaintext format (see example 2)
  • Upon loading the preset board is validated (right amount of each ship type, presence of collisions, etc)
  • If a preset file is invalid or missing the player is prompted to create a board using the Board builder

Running

  • The game is started by running ./bin/battleships.out (or .exe if on Windows1) from the project root

In-game

Board builder

  • The board builder is used for interactively creating a valid board
  • You can add new ships, edit already placed ships, reset the whole board and commit the newly created valid board

Gameplay

  • Players take turns attacking each other
  • Each turn, before attacking, the player can ask to see their own board
  • When a player sinks all of their opponent's ships they win and game is terminated

Footnotes

  1. If on Windows, please use the Git Bash terminal because, by default, cmd doesn't support ANSI and extended ASCII characters ↩ ↩2

  2. Example for preset board file

    1 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 0
1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1 0 1 1 1 0 1 0 1 0
0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0
1 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 0
1 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 0
0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 1
0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
    • Four ships of length 2
    • Three ships of length 3
    • Two ships of length 4
    • One ship of length 6
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