Battleshipasaurus

Battleshipasaurus is a Battleship game created using Python, and runs on a mock terminal on Heroku.

👉 Live Project

Instructions

The aim of the game is to sink the enemies battleships:

• If they correctly guess all the ships on the board they win

• If they don't hit all the ships within the number of turn they lose the game

Technologies

Python - main game language and it's default modules VS Code - To set up Python environment and text editor [Heroku] for site deployment and to store created files

Features

• One player game

• Instructions of the game

• User feedback for errors

• Grid elements so that user can distinguish between empty spaces, ships and misses

• Game Over prompt, Restart Game prompt to allow user to control start of game within the console.

• Number of turns are displayed to the user

• Number of ships left are displayed to the user

Future Features

• User to play against the computer

• Custom grid size

• Increased game difficulty

• Option to add different types of ships like the Carrier, Cruiser, Submarine etc.

Data Model

Game is made using python functions

Testing

Bugs

Solved bugs

• Fix bug where value entered in terminal did not match the board index.

• Fix bug where console with give valueError when game is run for the first time

• Fix bug where game over prompt was not being triggered at the end of game loop

Unfixed bugs

• Game start prompt will not start the game loop if too many gaps are typed in the console.

Validator testing

• PEP8

Deployment

Game was deployed using Heroku

• In your vscode or gitpod terminal inside your current workspace: type in:
  • touch requirements.txt
  • pip3 freeze > requirements.txt

This is to add dependencies to your deployed project

• To deploy this project you need a Heroku account

• Once logged in, click the CREATE NEW APP button

• Add a unique name for your project in lowercase and spaces separated by '-' the create new app

• Click on the settings page and add the Python THEN the Node.js build packs

• Go to the Deploy tab

• Connect your GitHub account and select the 'main' brach of your project

• Near the bottom on the page, you have two options on how to deploy your project. You can either do:

  • Automatic Deployment which will deploy your project after every change to your main github repository
  • Manual Deployment where the user has to prompt for the deployment.

• Which ever option you decide you have to do an initial Manual deployment to Heroku for the first upload.

• The app will install the necessary files and dependencies. Finally, a message was displayed: 'Your app was successfully deployed.'

Acknowledgements

• Codeacademy Python 2: Lists and Functions Template that helped me build the game logic
• ASCII table
• Alphabet string