BattleShipPy

This is a recreation of the Battle Ship game made by UWE written in python. I wrote this because the UWE version had limited control over how the server behaved, like speed of the server, spawning points, etc. Also, the client was written in C, so that was a nightmare to send string messages.

Prerequisites

Pygame : pip install pygame

Usage

Start Server:

import BattleShipPy
environment = BattleShipPy.Server(
	dropConnectionOnBadRequest=True,
	enableColorDebug=True,
	maxPlayerCount=4
)
environment.Start()

Connect Clients

Python

Note : Each instruction for the ship to behave in the BattleBotClient class, only adds that instruction to a list an only by calling CommitActions method, will the client send the instruction list to the server, where they are executed.

import random
import BattleShipPyClient

ship = BattleShipPyClient.Client("Arkangel-" + str(random.randrange(100,999)), "S23", localhost", 9999)
ship.Connect()

while ship.gameActive:
	
	ship.MoveTowards((400, 400))
	if (len(ship.ShipList) > 1):
		ship.Fire(ship.ShipList[1]["x"], ship.ShipList[1]["y"]) 

	if (ship.CalculateDistance((ship.x, ship.y), (400, 400)) <= 50):
				ship.SelfDestruct()
	ship.CommitActions()

Java

The java client has more or less the same functionality as the its python counterpart. The radar thread on the Java client also now runs on its own thread.

package battleship;

public class App {
    public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
		JaBattleship Client = new JaBattleship("Ark", "SEC435389", "127.0.0.1", 9999);
		while (true) {
			Client.MoveTowards(400, 400);
			Client.Commit();
		}
    }
}

Advantages BattleShipPy Has Over The Old UWE version

• Its written in Python
• Its Open-Source
• Its supports multiples instances of the same instruction per tick
• Doesn't require the client to listen for a connection
• Ships have self-destruct methods
• Displays visible ranges and firing ranges
• Displays ship co-ordinates
• Displays ship flags
• Displays which ships are visible to each other
• Displays the distances between each ship