battleship-tui 0.24.1

Battleship TUI is an implementation of the popular paper-and-pen Battleship game for your terminal.

Battleship TUI

Battleship TUI is an implementation of the popular paper-and-pen Battleship game for your terminal. You can play against the computer or a real player via the Internet, customize game options and appearance, keep track of your achievements, and more.

[!NOTE] Please consider this an alpha-version software. You can still use it and enjoy it but note that things may break and data might get lost. Feel free to fill in an issue if you've found a bug or have a question.

Features

• Singleplayer mode
• Multiplayer mode (via Internet)
• Customizable game rules
• Customizable UI
• Launch via CLI
• Game statistics

Planned features

• Ranking system
• Account management

Requirements

• A terminal (Windows PowerShell is fine too, see below)
• Python 3.10 or higher

[!NOTE] If you're on Windows, make sure to install the newer Windows Terminal. The older Windows PowerShell can't properly display some symbols.

Installation

If you're on Linux or macOS, most probably you already have Python installed. You can verify it by running $ python --version. If your Python version is lower than required, try installing the latest operating system updates.

If you're on Windows, you can download and install the latest Python release from the official site.

The recommended way to install and update the game is via pipx (especially if you don't know anything about virtual environments).

Install pipx, then install the game.

pipx install battleship-tui[client]

battleship-tui is merely a Python package and is distributed via PyPI. You can install it via pip too, but make sure it installs into a venv so that you're not messing with the system interpreter.

Play

Once the game is installed you can use the battleship command to run it. This command will launch the user interface and present you with the main menu.

Play via CLI

You can launch the game via CLI subcommands too, especially if you want to skip some in-game menus.

For example, if your favorite game mode is singleplayer, salvo variant, you can quickly get into battle by running battleship play single --salvo.

Run battleship play --help to discover available options.

Multiplayer

You can play Battleship TUI with your friends or colleagues via the Internet. Choose Multiplayer option in the main menu to do this.

Game account

You may sign up for a multiplayer account or try multiplayer with guest access.

To sign up, run battleship account signup. You'll be prompted with your email, desired nickname, and a password. Your nickname will be displayed in-game. It should contain 7 to 20 characters and be unique. Your password should contain at least 9 characters.

[!NOTE] Guests given an autogenerated nickname, their game statistics isn't saved. Guest access will work until you log off.

Screenshots

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Main menu

Game summary

Starting a multiplayer session

List of game sessions to join