ECM1400-Battleships-Coursework

Introduction

This is the repository for the ECM1400 Battleships Coursework. The aim of this project is to create a Battleships game in Python. The game will have multiple ways to play, either in a console or with a web interface.

Prerequisites

• Python 3.11

Installation

• Clone the repository
• RUN pip install -r requirements.txt

Getting Started

For Simple Game

• RUN python game_engine.py -c

For Command Line Game against AI

• EDIT placement.json to change where your ships will be placed
• Format of {"Ship_Name": ["X_coord", "Y_coord", "direction either v or h"]}
• RUN python mp_game_engine.py -c

For Web Game against AI

• RUN python main.py
• Then go to https://127.0.0.1/placement in your browser

Testing

• RUN pytest

Developer Documentation

Accessing Logs

• Logs for the games are stored in battleships.log

Sphinx/Autodoc

To access the sphinx autodoc documentation, open docs/build/html/index.html in your browser or visit https://edguardia.github.io/ECM1400-Battleships-Coursework/

Config Documentation

• config.yaml contains the configuration for the game. This includes the board size
• To edit the board size, change the board_size variable in config.yaml to an integer preferably less than 20
• You can also change level of logging here by setting logging_level to one of DEBUG, INFO, WARNING, ERROR, CRITICAL, NOTSET

• To edit the number or length of battleships add or edit new rows in battleships.txt with the format name_of_ship, length_of_ship

Details

Authors

• Edward Pratt

Licence

• GPL-3.0

Source

https://github.com/Edguardia/ECM1400-Battleships-Coursework

Documentation

https://edguardia.github.io/ECM1400-Battleships-Coursework

Self Assessment

Complete Features

• components.py tasks
  • Simple Placement
  • Random Placement
  • Custom Placement
• game_engine.py tasks
• mp_game_engine.py tasks
• main.py (FLASK) tasks
• Logging tasks
• Code Styling
• Project Delivery
  • Sphinx Documentation
  • Hosting on GitHub
    • https://github.com/Edguardia/ECM1400-Battleships-Coursework
    • https://edguardia.github.io/ECM1400-Battleships-Coursework
• Input Validation

Partially Complete Features

• Difficulty Levels
  • AI has been slightly improved to stop it hitting the same squared twice
• Testing
  • Most of the testing has been written
  • Not all custom functions have written tests
• Config Files
  • Config files have been implemented but not for all features user could choose

Incomplete Features

• Multi-Player Interface