CPE 471 Final Project
Doug Foiles
Introduction
I chose to create a 3D remake of the classic Battleship board game. I wanted to make
some sort of interactive graphics application so I thought that replicating a board
game would be fun. Being up and close to your ships and experiencing them
getting blown up is a cool concept and adds to the experience of the game.
How I Implemented the Game
I split the game into two modes, setup and actual gameplay.
During the setup the user
is placed above the battleship board and gets to place his/her pieces. The user and the
computer both get two ships that are three units long and one ship that is two units long.
The computers ships are randomly generated each game. The user can control the placement
of the ships using the keys W, A, S, and D (up,left,down,right). Once the user is happy with
the position of the ship they can press the ENTER key to confirm its placement and move
onto the next piece.
Once all the pieces are placed the user is moved to the front of the board so every part
of the board is in sight. The user can now guess where the computers ships are.
To guess, the user will enter coordinates with the keyboard. The rows are A-E and the
columns are 1-5. For example, the top left box is A1 and the bottom right is E5.
When the user guesses a spot where a computer ship is located, a red dot pops up at that
spot on the board. If the user misses a ship, a white dot pops up. After
each guess the computer will make a random guess. Once the computer guesses it will
know not to guess in the same spot. If the computer guesses a spot where one of the users
ships is, an explosion animation is played.
What I learned
I got a lot of practice with linking graphics to user interaction and gameplay. I began
by programming the gampeplay logic first and then connected the graphics after. There was
a little bit of collision detection when the user is setting up the board. I used arrays
to map everything. I originally wanted to use particles to create the explosion but I ended
up making an animation with timers and scaling shapes. I spent a lot of time with
matrix transformations so I ended up having a really good understanding of how to move
objects in an environment.
Images
Setup
Gameplay
Explosion
