README.md

BattleShip-Human-AI-Network

A first trimester software engineering final project coded in Python during a rush of exams.

Authors:

• Guillaume Chevalier
• Raphaël Gaudreault

Launching the game

A scientific Python 3 installation is required (e.g.: Anaconda).

Play against the computer as a human:

python3 main.py -u Your_username

Play an accelerated match as the computer, against the computer:

python3 main.py -u Your_username -c

Sample output:

COMPUTER Your_username READY TO PLAY

COMPUTER False READY TO PLAY

GAME DONE:

P1 remaining boat count: 2

P2 remaining boat count: 0

Number of exchanged shots: 36

Network

It was possible to play against a friend as yourself or as the computer (AI), but this was using the university's servers, they might be down and we do not have the backend code that managed matches.

Other configuration

See:

python3 main.py --help

Bugs

• We began with camelCase for local variables, but we switched at midway to the end of the project to lower_underscore. We had not the time to fix everything in the end. This project, as sad as it can be, was only worth a small 5% of the course.
• There is no special color for a sank boat on the player 1's self grid on the left side. However, its boats will appear "touched" as expected when hit, so this is not quite important as player 1 can see its boats.
• Playing on network, if an opponent is not found within 3 seconds, the game freezes.

Screenshots