README.adoc

TypeScript Battleships

Simple game done in TS as part of personal training.

Why another Battleship clone?

I’ve started it with three things in mind:

• I want to be better at TypeScript,

• I want to create CLI game and fiddle with standard input/standard output,

• I want board game where board is not represented as an array.

It’s common to create games like this with arrays. i.e. Tic-Tac-Toe when board representation is similar to this:

array: [
    X | O | X
    O | X | O
    O | O | O
]

In this game, board is an object storing game elements as another objects.

Drawing of board is performed by checking each position for Target and it’s state in memory.

Feel free to explore code.

Setup and Play

git clone https://github.com/sebastianluczak/boardgame-ts.git
cd boardgame-ts
npm install
npm run compile

How to play

There is a limit of 100 rounds.

Press directional keys to move the cursor around table.

Press Space key to shoot.

Development

You can run npm start to compile project on-the fly.

Source code is located in ./src, build is done in ./dist.

Running npm run compile in one terminal windows and npm start in another is convinient way to write code and debug at the same time.