Battleships
I really wanted to bring one of my favourite childhood games to life on the screen after building Minesweeper. It was a big challenge considering how to generate a grid and automatically place the boats onto the grid, and then write a script to allow the human to play the computer. It was even more of a challenge writing a programme that sometimes wins - which it sometimes does!
My goal is to carry on working on this and try to get the computer to win almost half of the time...
- July 2019 – First published in React 15 in July 2019
- November 2022 – Completely refactored and republished in React 18
- October 2023 – Significantly improved computer's strategy and logic. The computer is much better at efficiently bombing ships when it finds them, and more efficient searching techniques. Wins more often.