Battleship game made in Java with JavaFX (FOR KU EECS 448 FALL 2019) Forked from team Poor Yorick: https://github.com/maxdgoad/Battleship
Due to version errors with Java, do the following for Mac (and similar actions for Linux) in order to compile and play the game.
*Approaches that solves compile Error(For Macbook)
*First Step(Removing all your java form your Macbook)
*Type in those commands in your terminal:
sudo rm -fr /Library/Internet\ Plug-Ins/JavaAppletPlugin.plugin
sudo rm -fr /Library/PreferencePanes/JavaControlPanel.prefPane
sudo rm -fr ~/Library/Application\ Support/Oracle/Java
*Type in: echo $JAVA_HOME (copy JAVA_HOME Path, something like /Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines)
*Then type in the path you copied: cd /Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines
*Type in: sudo rm -fr /Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdkXXXX.jdk(deleating path, if you have multiple jdk version installed,
use commands to delete them all and make sure there is nothing left in /Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines)
*Second Step(install JDK8)
*Link is here: https://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/jdk8-downloads-2133151.html
*Type in: open ~/.bash_profile
*Add export JAVA_HOME=$(/usr/libexec/java_home) (Manually set up Path)
*Save and close file
*Type in: source ~/.bash_profile (Activate your new Path)
*Type in: echo $JAVA_HOME (Now you should see your new path, something like /Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.8.0_221.jdk/Contents/Home)
*Now try to compile with "make" and run with "make run"
Team "Big Segfault Energy"
Written in Java
Team Members:
Chance Penner
Haonan Hu
Markus Becerra
Sarah Scott
Thomas Gardner
Location: Eaton Hall Lawr2
09/27/2019 @ 11:30AM to 11:50AM
All in attendance
Agenda:
*Brainstorming for extra features that we need to add
*Nuke on hit streak
*UAV radar(probably)
*Trying to solve Compiler Error
Location: Eaton Hall Lawr2
09/30/2019 @ 11:35AM to 11:50AM
All in attendance
Agenda:
*Fixed compile Error(Thanks to Markus)
*Scheduled for next meeting(10/2 Wednesday)
Location: LEEP2 1328
10/05/2019 @ 12:00PM to 5:00PM
Haonan, Chance, Thomas
Agenda:
*Class diagram for the project
*Bug fixes
*Get program ready for implementing extra features
Location: LEEP2 1328
10/06/2019 @ 12:00PM to 5:00PM
Chance, Thomas
Agenda:
*AI(easy mode) is done
*Start with hard mode
Location: LEEP2 1322, Eaton 1005C
10/09/2019 @ 9:00AM to 10:50AM
All in attendance
Agenda:
*Help group members have a good understanding of the classes function
Location: LEEP2 1324, Leep2 Ground Floor
10/11/2019 @ 9:00AM to 10:50AM
All in attendance
Agenda:
*Fixed median difficulty AI would stack on while loop if you put three horizontal battleships together
Location: LEEP2 1324, Leep2 Ground Floor
10/12/2019 @ 2:30PM to 5:02PM
Thomas, Chance
Agenda:
*Fixed popups for all gamemodes
*Attempted to fix button highlight bug
Location: LEEP2 1324
10/14/2019 @ 12:00PM to 4:00PM
Sarah, Haonan, Chance, Markus
Agenda:
*Fixed nuke AI
*Reformatted files
Location: LEEP2 1322
10/16/2019 @ 9:00AM to 10:50AM
Sarah, Haonan, Chance, Thomas
Agenda:
*Add nuke text for player 1
*Add radar button
Location: Leep2 ground floor Alcove
10/18/2019 @ 4:00PM to 5:00PM
Haonan, Chance, Thomas
Agenda:
*Fixed Nuke text bug for both players
Location LEEP2 1326
10/18/2019 @ 6:30PM to 8:30PM
Markus, Haonan, Chance, Thomas
Agenda:
*Radar implementation
Location LEEP2 1326
10/18/2019 @ 8:30PM to 10:00PM
Markus, Chance, Thomas
Agenda:
*Compete radar implementation
Location LEEP2 1324
10/19/2019 @ 4:00PM to 6:00PM, 7:00PM to 9:00PM
Chance, Thomas
Agenda:
*Radar bug fix
*Begin commenting
Location LEEP2 1324
10/19/2019 @ 11:00AM to 1:15PM
Haonan, Thomas, Chance
Agenda:
*Commenting/documentation
*Resolve merge conflicts
Location LEEP2 1324
10/19/2019 @ 1:15PM to 3:30PM
All in attendance
Agenda:
*Finish retrospective/documentation
*Turn in final version of project
For this project, we needed to add an AI game mode with three difficulty modes (easy, medium, and hard). We chose to add two additional features, a nuke shot, and a radar. To get the program to compile on our machines, we had to downgrade our Java versions to JavaFX 8. Haonan and Markus took responsibility for figuring out the necessary steps to get our machines to compile the project. Chance, Thomas, and Haonan were in charge of the versusAIGUI. Chance and Thomas then completed the easy and hard mode for the AI option. All of the group then met and planned out and worked on the medium difficulty. Markus began the nuke, and the rest of the team joined in to help. The radar was planned by Haonan, Markus, Chance, and Thomas. The radar got finished later that night by Markus, Chance, and Thomas. When each addition was created, Sarah and Thomas added/fixed the popups for them. We did not split the work into classes, as the project we received was in a mega class. Overall, each member did a fair amount of work and we were able to finish the project on time.
Our first was compiling the project we received. The project was coded using JavaFX8, which is a vastly outdated version of Java. We each had to downgrade our machines to this Java version, which took more time than expected. Haonan and Markus did hours of online research to figure out how to remove the current version of Java and replace it with an older one. Haonan and Markus then simplified the steps so that Sarah, Chance, and Thomas could get it to compile on their machines. This process was a total of around 5 hours between the two.
Another challenge we faced was figuring out how “e.getSource()” functions, since we needed to get an AI player to work. Since the entire handle function was waiting for an input as a mouse click (clicking on a location on the board), we attempted to hard code mouse clicks for the AI player. This was not possible for JavaFX8. We then had to copy all of the code for human player two functions and paste them into an AI function that did not expect a mouse click for input. The overarching challenge throughout the whole project was coding in a language we were not familiar with (Java) and doing so without a single comment given to us besides “#megaclass”. We spent the first three or four meetings trying to understand how the program actually worked and getting familiar with GUI’s, buttons, labels, and stages. For this project, we struggled more with meeting with the whole group. People had plans made for weekends and fall break, so we could not always meet altogether. Though the meetings were split up with different groups of people, we were still able to understand and put in enough work to finish the project.
1) Remove printing "Press R to rotate" when game starts.
2) Player1 cannot rotate his first ship (length 1).
3) Once 2 players placed their ships, player2's board has a highlighted block that shows player2's ship location.
4) When you win by using a Nuke, it prints 9 "you win" messages behind "you used a nuke" message
1) Sound effects, animations
2) Change color of ships or themes
3) Game mode for having another turn after you hit a ship
4) Basic battleship game mode that has no extra powerups, plain battleship game
If we could redo this project, we would have split the code we were given into more functions. Since we were given a mega class, it would have been more helpful to have functions that would remove repeat code and improve the “smell” of the code. We also would have tried to restructure the program by splitting things into different classes, but we did not have a strong understanding of how classes work in Java. Other than these changes, we would have liked to meet more often like we did for the first project.
Icon image: https://publicdomainvectors.org/en/free-clipart/Battleship-colorful-sketch/69364.html
Randomize numbers: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/363681/how-do-i-generate-random-integers-within-a-specific-range-in-java
Setting image size: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/27894945/how-do-i-resize-an-imageview-image-in-javafx
Setting button position: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/30641187/position-javafx-button-in-a-specific-location?rq=1
https://github.com/maxdgoad/othello-max
https://blog.idrsolutions.com/2014/05/tutorial-change-default-cursor-javafx/
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/20825935/javafx-get-node-by-row-and-column
https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/javafx/api/javafx/scene/layout/BackgroundFill.html
https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/javafx/api/javafx/scene/layout/package-summary.html
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/26454149/make-javafx-wait-and-continue-with-code/26454506
https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/javafx-popup-class/
https://www.programcreek.com/java-api-examples/?api=javafx.scene.input.KeyEvent
Forked from Team Poor Yorick: https://github.com/maxdgoad/Battleship