Warships

Batteships game for 2 players. 🚢

Objectives

• build a web app that allows user to create and partake in a 2 player matches
• implement a simple real-time chat
• create a system that terminates empty game rooms due to inactivity
• gain basic familiarity with Elixir and some of it’s modules

Technologies

• Phoenix Framework 1.7
• TailwindCSS

Running app locally

To start your Phoenix server:

• Run mix setup to install and setup dependencies
• Start Phoenix endpoint with mix phx.server or inside IEx with iex -S mix phx.server

Now you can visit localhost:4000 from your browser.

Possible improvements :

• [x] simple state machine that allows to play against a “CPU player”
  • [x] randomized ship placement
  • [x] simple state machine that tracks coords
  • [ ] perfect the code that generates the coords for next move
• [ ] system that allows players to challange those currently playing against a “CPU player
  • [x] implement a mechanic, that will allow to challenge players in matches against “CPU player”
  • [/] give players a possibility to opt out of a challenge mechanic or/and ignore other player’s requests
• [ ] improve UI feedback
  • [x] when placing ships, draw ship’s class and position on hover
  • [ ] reduce ships that can be drawn by those already placed
  • [ ] change “miss”, “hit” and “sunk” responses after shooting to something more aesthetic
  • [ ] [optional] display opponent’s mouse cursor on player’s boards, when it’s opponent’s turn
• [x] develop a mechanism responsible for flash message clean up
• [ ] design a system that will prevent users from opening more than 1 tab; current app implementation removes the player from game and chat when closing one of concurrent app tabs
• [x] add a favicon
• [ ] investigate why manifest.json is not being served correctly in prod