This is a C implementation of the popular game Battle Ship
This game has a modular design to facilitate implementing new data structures for the game tray as well as other ways to transmit data between different shells.
The rules of the game are as follows:
Each player starts with a board of a fixed size.
Each player gets access to the same pieces to place on the board.
The player's take turns attempting to hit the adversary's boats. If a player hits a boat he maintains his turn. If he misses, the turn is moved to the other player.
The first player to take down all the boats of the opponent wins. (Take down a boat means hit every position that the boat is in).
The program is divided into 4 distinct modules:
The storage module which handles the game tray, the positioning of the boats and whether the player has hit or missed a boat.
The communication module which handles the communication between the two instances of players. (As each player only knows about his own placed pieces, we need to check with the opponent to see if the player has hit any boats with his shots).
The graphics module which handles all user I/O.
The gameplay module which combines all the former modules and implements the actual game logic.
Currently implemented are: Matrixes and quad trees for the game tray. Inter process communication (To allow for a game to occur on more than one shell): Text files, Shared memory and Sockets. With sockets you can have each player on a separate machine (If all ports are correctly configured and the provided IP address is correct) The default port used by the game is 8080.
Compilation instructions: Before any compilation, running * make clean * is recommended.
The modifiable parameters are:
GAME_TYPE - Defaults to TWO_SHELL. Can be ONE_SHELL (To be used only with SAME_SHELL COMMUNICATION) to run the game on one shell or TWO_SHELL to run the game on two different shells
COMMUNICATION - Defaults to SHARED_MEM. Can be SAME_SHELL (To be used only with ONE_SHELL GAME_TYPE), TEXT to use text files, SHARED_MEM to use shared memory and NETWORK to use sockets
STORAGE - Defaults to QUAD. Can be MATRIX to use the matrix or QUAD to use the quad tree
To modify these parameters use the command * make * as follows:
make GAME_TYPE=TWO_SHELL COMMUNICATION=TEXT STORAGE=QUAD
Any of the parameters can be omitted if you don't wish to change from the default. Some example commands:
Compiling the program to run on only one shell with Quadtrees:
make GAME_TYPE=ONE_SHELL COMMUNICATION=SAME_SHELL
Compiling the program to run on two shells using text files for communication and Matrixes for game storage:
make COMMUNICATION=TEXT STORAGE=MATRIX
Compiling the program to run on two shells using Sockets (Networking) for communication and Quadtrees for game storage:
make COMMUNICATION=NETWORK