Game Ideas

Game Ideas

BattleShip

We want to make battleship as the first game.

• Win condition: sink all of the opponent's ships
• A ship is sunk when all of its occupied grids are shot
• Each player has 5 total ships of different dimensions: [1x5], [1x4], [1x3], [1x3], [1x2]
• Before the game starts, each player places all their ships on their [10x10] grid without overlaps
• Each turn, the current turn player calls a coordinate on the opponents grid to be shot
• If a shot hits a grid occupied by a ship, the player is informed of a 'Hit'. Else, it is a 'Miss'
• If a ship is sunk, the player is informed of it

https://www.hasbro.com/common/instruct/battleship.pdf

Out Fish The Sea

• Teams of two but only one code submission. The teams are made to discuss and implement multiple strategies together.
• There are two hubs that represent you and your opponents base on the map.
• Goal is to destroy the other team by destroying their hub. Or if no team gets destroyed within after a number of rounds, the one with the most amount of fish wins
• Each unit must be spawned at your hub.
• Units include:
  • Fish Boat
  • Excavator Boat
  • Cargo transporters
  • Wall constructor boat
  • Attack boat
• Each unit has a different size and speed:
  • Fish Boat + excavator boat: 1x1 + 2 speed
  • Cargo transporter: 2x4 + 1 speed
  • Wall constructor boat: 2x4 + 1 speed
  • Attack boat: 1x1 + 3 speed
• Starting units:
  • 1 Fish boat. 1 Excavator boat.
• Resources are spread across biomes which are spread across an area:
  • Algae biome
  • Metal biome
  • Fish biome
  • Sea biome: (no resources)
• Only certain bots can collect certain resources
  • Fish boat can only collect fish
  • Excavator boat can collect metal which allow you to construct boats and algae which allow you to construct walls
  • Each unit has a max capacity for all of the items that they can carry. Cargo ships don't have a limit
• Construction:
  • walls which are made out of algae decay over time and need to be repaired or replaced.
  • All boats need metals to construct
  • Attack boats need fish to power the boat to attack and can run out of fishing fuel.
• Symbiosis:
  • Boats can transfer resources from one to another if they are both next to each other
  • You can trade in fish for metal using a trade action from the hub.
  • Cargo ships serve really well as outposts for refurbishing walls and fish to other units but they must be protected.
  • Every boat can destroy walls, but attack boats destroy them 4 times faster.
• Movement and actions:
  • Each unit must be controlled independently via a move or doing some action.
  • Each game tick: each unit can only do one action

Strategy example

• Send all your fishing boats and excavator boats to fish and get metal respectively and return when their cargo hold is full.
• Create a wall construction boat as soon as you can to surround the metal resources first.
• Create a few attack boats that surround the fish and excavator boat that attack anything that comes close.
• Once your path to the resources have been secured. Create a cargo boat at each biome to allow your smaller boats to drop and collect resources faster. The cargo boat goes back to the hub when a high enough resources count has been done.
• If there are enough fish resources and rounds left. Start creating a fleet of attack boats.
• Once there are enough attack boats. Send all of them in a straight line towards the enemy hub.