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Welcome to the Battle-boats Game!!

• Program created by Rishi Selvakumaran (selva053) and Dylan Brandt (bran1198) on March 25 2020

How to play the game for beginners:

1. In Repl, enter the following commands:

->cd src

->javac BattleBoatsGame.java

->java BattleboatsGame

1. Follow instructions while running the game

2. Have fun destroying the ships!

• The objective of this game is to destroy all the ships onboard within as few turns as possible.

The User has two modes to choose from:

1. Standard Mode

2. Expert mode

• If a user types in an option other than 1 or 2, they would be displayed invalid option.

The standard method consists of:

1. 8x8 board
2. 5 boats (Labelled as in numbers 0 to 4) {Our ships never overlap on top of each other}
3. Powers limited to one drone and one missile and one time the coordinate will be displayed

The Expert method consists of:

1. 12x12 board
2. 10 boats (Labelled as in numbers 0 to 9) {Our ships never overlap on top of each other}
3. Powers limited to two drones and two missiles and two times the ship coordinates will be displayed

• At any point while playing the game, the user has the option to print the board or quit the game.

• When attacking or launching the missile at the targeted ship, the user must type in the coordinates in this format: (0,0) where the 0’s represent the respective x and y coordinate that the user wishes to attack on.

Special Powers:

1. Missile

• The missile is a special power where the surrounding 3x3 coordinates on the board get attacked for the coordinate that the user has launched the missile on.

• Example if the user has launched the missile on the (2,2) then the missile will destroy the ship coordinates at (1,1),(1,2),(1,3),(2,1),(2,2),(2,3),(3,1),(3,2), and (3,3).

1. Drone

• Drone is a special power where the user gets to scan the respective row or col by typing in r or c into the game, and the particular row or column that they wish to scan for target.

• Typing in any other command would cause invalid input to be displayed until the user correctly types in the right command

• The user has to be careful that the drone will also reveal an already hit and sunk ship coordinate as a target spot as well. Hence it is advised for the user to print the board for clarification

1. Coordinations

• If the user is really stuck on analyzing the coordinates of the ship, he/she/they could type in coordinates and request for the program to display the coordinates

• Function can only be used once in standard and twice in Expert

Possible bugs:

1. When print function is called it prints the board twice, as after fulfilling the if condition the main method is run through that consists of the board print method call

2. After implementing drone feature and printing target spots the program generates an Invalid input statement. No need to panic for this one though!

Partner’s Work on Project:

Rishi:

• Game Class design; User input and setting up the command lines for user to type
• Coordinates method was done by Rishi
• Try and catch blocks were implemented by Rishi
• Fire method and missile method implementation and design was done by Rishi
• The getships method was designed and implemented by Rishi

Dylan:

• Initalising Board class with the checker board
• Designed the placing boats method
• Worked on 1/2 of placing ships method
• Drone method design was worked by Dylan
• Trouble shooting and debugging of the ships coordinate was done by Dylan