Captain Sonar

An implementation of the board game "Captain Sonar", in which players control a submarine on a grid with a limited view of the environment and of the position of other players. The objective is to stay alive and shoot other players dead as fast as possible. A more precise description of the game is available in the instructions.

The point of this project was to implement the game's logic and add several features to it (a very simple Graphical User Interface was provided by the teaching assistant) and create AI agents that would be able to play the game efficiently. The different parts of the system were supposed to interact using message-passing concurrency. Two modes of execution exist: a sequential turn-by-turn mode and a concurrent simultaneous mode.

This project was made in 2017 for the course LINGI1131 – Computer Languages Concepts.

Languages used:

• Oz
• bash (to automate the compilation and execution)

Collaborators

This project is a two people project I made with Brieuc Pinon. He made the game logic and improvements to the Graphical User Interface, while I made the agents (namely a random one and another one, called basic AI).

What I learned

• Make a program whose parts are concurrently executing, and synchronize them using message-passing concurrency
• Understand a game in a way that allows us to create efficient playing agents

Files worth checking out

• The project instructions: Projet2017_V3.pdf
• Our report explaining what we made: Group34-Report.pdf
• The main file, with most of the logic of the game: Main.oz
• The random and basic AIs: Player034RandomAI.oz and Player034BasicAI.oz

Compilation and execution

You will need to install Mozart to compile and run the code.

Compile and run the project:

./run.sh

Alternatively, you can run the following commands:

ozc -c Input.oz
ozc -c PlayerManeger.oz
ozc -c Player034RandomAI.oz
ozc -c Player034BasicRandom.oz
ozc -c GUI.oz
ozc -c Main.oz
ozengine Main.ozf

Note: the makefile shouldn't be used.