Depot Games: Space Battle

Current Version: 1.0

Project Status: Completed

Highest Popularity: #5 during December 2006

Links: Web Site

Category: Board Games

Developers: Gia Nguyen

Number of Players: 1

Ports: DOS, Windows

Source Code: Available

Author's Description: Space Battle - an implementation of Battleship

This is a version of the popular Battleship board game. I originally wrote this in Turbo Pascal while playing with the SIMH Altair 8800 emulator for the PC. That text-only version ran under Z-80 CP/M emulation mode on a Pentium Windows XP machine.

Moving on, I recently ported the Pascal program over to C++ using Dev-C and the Allegro game library, and added graphics and sounds.

Feature wise, the game is similar to the Electronic Battleship Advanced Mission toy by Milton Bradley. My implementation is slightly different from the original game. Space Battle has 5 different skill levels, 3 levels of AI, and includes extras such as recon aircraft and advanced salvo fire.

This is my "beginner" Allegro project. I'm looking forward to possibly get a network version going soon.

If you download the source code and executable, see my readme.txt file for game instructions. If you plan to compile and run the source code, you will need the data and config files (they are in the executable ZIP file).

I welcome feedbacks from all. Cheers.

Gia Nguyen

Credits:

Ari Feldman, for his SpriteLIB GPL package. I used his graphics in my project. You can get more information at his web site:
http://www.flyingyogi.com/fun/spritelib.html

All other graphics and sounds were obtained freely from the Internet.

Downloads

Name	Comments	Size	Date
spacebattle_exe.zip	Space Battle EXE (Windows, no Allegro DLL)	4,118,724	02/23/2006 2:57 PM
spacebattle_source.zip	Space Battle Source Code (C++ program/headers)	19,261	02/23/2006 2:58 PM