A simple battleship game implemented in less than 500 lines of Python.

Just clone this repo and you are ready to rumble. There are no additional dependencies (besides Python3 itself).

~ git clone https://github.com/M0r13n/battleships.git

You can now start the game by running:

~ python client.py

You can then decide to either start the game as a server or as a client.

There are two boards displayed. The left displays your ships and their hits. The right shows your past shots, which can either be hits or misses.

The game uses a TCP/IP socket to enable point to point communication between two players. It uses a simple protocol which consists of only two bytes.

+-------+-------+-------+---------+
|   X   |   Y   |  Hit  | Padding |
+-------+-------+-------+---------+
| 4 Bit | 4 Bit | 1 Bit | 7 Bit   |
+-------+-------+-------+---------+

In fact the protocol is so simple that is easy to use other kinds of communication, such as ICMP packets. Just replace the Networking class and you are good to go.