shell script game
 

Hi all,

As one of our last projects in my C & UNIX class, we are making a simple game. Our group decided to do a minesweeper clone. As I am writing out the pre-code, I realize that if I was doing this in C++ or Java, I would use a class to define each "mine hole". That way it can keep track of it's status as flagged, unflagged, bombed etc.

We haven't really gone over structs and classes for shell scripts. Does anyone know if this is possible?

Pixel,

Which shell?

Does it need to be pure shell scripting or can you make use of binaries within the script? Any restrictions? I'd probably cheat and put the game in mysql, wrapped by shell IO. Takes care of network & multiuser issues. :)

I'm offline for the day. Should be plenty of scripting guys here though. Lay out your restrictions.

Our prof was kind of vauge on the "all script" portion of it. I don't think he would mind if some of it was in C binanry, but if I can, I'd like to do the whole thing in script.

It can be in any shell we have available (csh, bsh, bash, ksh).

The easiest shell game would be hangman, because shells tend to have good pattern, search, and replacement code for strings.

A class.. that seems overkill.

All you need is an array surely.

As I see it, each space is going to need to be tagged as holding a mine or not and tagged as it's status (open, closed or flagged). A class or struct seems like the best choice to me.

Yikes, sorry PB. I completely bailed.

A 2D char array is simple, no? Use the bits for contents and status. Creative bit choices mean no translation to display the board as text.

This is for a single session? No networking issues?

That is true. I could even use a 2D int array and translate with a case statement. I'll probably want to add color and such on the output, so I might do that.

Yeah, this will be a single session and no networking. Although, one of the other groups is tackling network battleship. I'm interested to see how that will work.