Battleship Game - Using Sockets

A Battleship game developed in 2019 using Java and sockets that can be played by two players. This game was proposed in a college assignment of the subject Networks. The description (portuguese only) of this assignment can be found here.

Restriction of this assignment: do not use different threads, i.e., one player will have the UI blocked when the other player is making his move.

Requirements:

• Java 8 or newer versions

Concept

The players can see both players' boards that are updated after each move:

• the left board is the player's board and is revealed;
• the board on the right is the opponent's board and is not revelead at the start, but each square is revealed after a shot is fired at it.

The figure below shows an example of this concept, and involves 3 types of vessels: canoe, submarine and warship.

Running the Battleship Server

Go to the directory ./"Client and Server Projects"/ServidorBatalhaNaval/ and execute the following commands in the terminal to compile and execute, respectively:

javac -encoding UTF8 -cp . src/servidorbatalhanaval/*.java -d src/build

java -cp "src/build;src" servidorbatalhanaval.ServidorBatalhaNaval

• Configuration screen:

  • N: Game table size (NxN)
  • X: Ship size
  • Y: Number of ships
  • Z: Number of moves a player can make
  • "Largura Grid": Grid width
  • "Altura Grid": Grid height

Running the Battleship Client

Go to the directory ./"Client and Server Projects"/BatalhaNaval/ and execute the following commands in the terminal to compile and execute, respectively:

javac -d src/build -encoding UTF8 -cp "lib/batik-bin-1.11/batik-1.11/lib/batik-all-1.11.jar;lib/batik-bin-1.11/batik-1.11/lib/xml-apis-ext-1.3.04.jar;lib/batik-bin-1.11/batik-1.11/lib/xmlgraphics-commons-2.3.jar;." src/batalhanaval/*.java src/batalhanaval/utils/*.java

java -cp "lib/batik-bin-1.11/batik-1.11/lib/batik-all-1.11.jar;src/build;lib/batik-bin-1.11/batik-1.11/lib/xml-apis-ext-1.3.04.jar;lib/batik-bin-1.11/batik-1.11/lib/xmlgraphics-commons-2.3.jar;src" batalhanaval.BatalhaNaval

After starting the client, press the button "JOGAR" if the server is online. Then it'll wait for a second player to join and start the game. Therefore, you need to execute three different process to play the game: two clients and the server.

• Playing:

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