Re: [9front] new game: battleship (aka sink the fleet)

[qwx@sciops.net]

On Sat Sep  2 17:19:12 +0200 2023, rgl@antares-labs.eu wrote:
> hello everyone!
> 
> some of you may remember i started working on yet another game during
> the hackathon, an online multiplayer version of Battleship (better
> known to some of us as Sink the fleet/Hundir la flota).  well,
> yesterday i finished the final touches and i wanted to share it with
> you.  now instead of resolving an argument by playing rock, paper,
> scissors till exhaustion, you can take the fight to the
> (international) seas.
> 
> you can pull it from http://shithub.us/rodri/battleship/HEAD/info.html

How do you feel about adding this to /sys/src/games?  Me and others
would love to see this added, we lack online multiplayer games.

The *.man files seem to be missing from the repo, so the `all' target
fails.  You should also account for mouse movement while a key is
held; using a trackpoint, if trying to rotate a ship at the start with
mmb, it will keep flipping until your finger is perfectly still, etc.
There's some other small things that aren't bugs that could be
discussed.  Over all, pretty nice :)

Do you plan on adding more stuff?  I'd personally love to see AI
opponents and games with more than 2 players (your code doesn't
entirely assume only two), replays/demos, perhaps spectators, etc. :)

There's other games out there which could be added, so I'd encourage
people to submit stuff (that works and is reasonably complete).  More
games!

Cheers,
qwx