The rules of the game are as follows: There exists a board, which contains a grid of spaces. A space could be a mine, or not. The player clicks on a space, and it gets revealed. The goal of the game is to reveal all the spaces that are not mines, while avoiding the spaces that are. When a space is revealed: If it’s a mine, the game ends If it’s not a mine, it shows the number of mines adjacent to that space (anywhere from 0 to 8, with 0 just showing as an empty space)
- If a space has no adjacent mines, all non-mine spaces adjacent to it are also revealed The player uses the numbers as clues to figure out where other mines may be located. When all of the non-mine spaces have been revealed, the player wins!
Flags: Right-clicking a hidden space puts a flag on that space, marking it as a possible mine. Flagged spaces cannot be revealed (with left-clicks or as a result of adjacent spaces being revealed), but another right-click will remove the flag. Mine Counter: to track the number of mines that are on the board. Every time the player places a flag, the counter goes down by one. Every time they remove a flag, the counter goes up by one. The mine counter CAN go negative! Restart Button: The smiley face centered at the top or bottom of the window lets you restart a new board with everything reset and mines randomized
Debug Button: Clicking this button will toggle the visibility of the mines on the board. Use this to help you test/debug various features of the game. Having to play the game properly each time you want to test something is very time-consuming. Creating these developer shortcuts helps speed up the development process Test Buttons #1-3: Another development shortcut, clicking on these loads a file with a specific board layout, details on this later. Those are the features that your game will need to have. The rules are pretty simple, but even simple games like this can be challenging to implement.
The library that you will be using in this project is SFML—Simple Fast Multimedia Library. The first thing you would need to do is compile an application using this. Building an application using an external library can be a difficult thing, but it’s something that you typically only have to do once at the start of a project, and then you’re good to go until that project is finished.