Battleships

The iconic battleships game. Now in your console!

🚢 Table of Contents

• Battleships
  • 🚢 Table of Contents
  • 🐠 Features
  • 🐬 Core Technology Highlights
  • 🏝️ System Requirements

🐠 Features

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• Play against computer or other players in your LAN.
  
• Start or join a new network game.
  
• Place your battleships manually... or use a single button to distribute them randomly.
  
• Play with your friends and see their actions in real time.
  
  

🐬 Core Technology Highlights

This project was built with the goal of not using any external libraries, relying entirely on the features provided by C++20 and UNIX sockets. The game includes a user interface and network serialization, all implemented from scratch.

• Elegant and colorful user interface built. using ANSI escape sequences.
• Separate threads for keyboard input and network operations.
• Low level networking with UNIX sockets.
• Smart memory management.
• Modern C++20 features, e.g. std::ranges.

🏝️ System Requirements

The game was written and tested on macOS Sequoia 15.3. It should also work on other UNIX-based systems like Linux.

• A macOS computer (or other UNIX-based system).
• A terminal supporting ANSI escape sequences (e.g. Terminal.app).
• A terminal window of size 80x25 characters (width x height).