Battleship game - K Robot Lab

Published: April 06, 2020Updated: August 20, 2022

Table of contents

History
Current state of development
Roadmap
- Gameplay ideas
- Technical ideas
Other games
- Battleship Variations
- On Play Store

A Python implementation of the classic battleship game.

I decided to be very original with so common name as battleship. I know that Google Translate has about 40 different languages to choose from. I type in "battle ship" in English and start peeking different languages on the opposite side and I start tasting how these new words sound like.

So "the ships, the battle" = "bato yo slaget". You read it as BArcelona TOrtuga YOlk SLAck friGATE

History

Basic logic adopted from @JBKahn code.

Features I liked:

board size is a variable
amount of players defined at runtime
user ships can be placed on the board randomly
simple console output

Important things added:

ships can not intersect
unlimited amount of players (strange feature of course)
split the monolith code onto small classes (one class - one file)
game logic in separate python modules

From @tmac-balla I've taken the engine that uses PyGame library and

extended logic classes with sprites and fonts
linked game classes to the engine

Current state of development

game ends when the game ends (just restart the app)
not stable (auto ship positioning going wild)
and maybe more...

Github

Roadmap

OK, how to make a regular dead simple Battleship implementation to be more like Not your father's battleship?

Gameplay ideas

Not square field (check out this review and read more about hexagons)
Restoring fog of war plus moving ships
Ships against coastal defense
Aircraft carrier (5 cells) - relatively easy to find and sink, but it gives exploration data with some chance to locate one cell ships