Battleboat.js
Games
browser game
SHOW HN2014
52points
16comments
#612of 2,272 in 2014
Top 27%of 2014 by points
How HN took it
DebatedReal support and real criticism
4 positive, 4 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 5 critical, out of 13 comments about the project. Thread score -0.03.
Performance: 4 for, 3 againstExecution: 0 for, 1 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
Fun to play and hard to beat
From 3 comments
It's reached a point where I can no longer beat the bot!
Graham42x on HNwon my 3rd game. definitely hard
yincrash on HNAwesome! Won the first game, was feeling a bit worried at first!
niix on HN
Objections
Bot follows a deterministic search pattern that can be exploited by placement
From 3 comments
Optimal placement of the boats is pretty simple to find in games like this. After playing a round or two a simple pattern in the searching algorithm emerges. After a few…
GoldenStake on HNI found a similar setup: http://imgur.com/aOaZYrs It'd be fun to automate the process and find the absolute best strategy against this deterministic guessing algorithm. Edit: the…
christiangenco on HNBeat it three times by simply clustering the boats together. Assumed that any program which will be 'good' at Battleship will also be one that will have an efficient way of…
urs2102 on HN
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From 1 comment
I'm just getting "Please enable Javascript" Checking out the console I'm getting two "SecurityError: The operation is insecure." errors during the localStorage access, probably…
jaachan on HN
Requests
Show the bot's shots with a transition animation
From 1 comment
Fun. It'd be nice if there were some kind of transition to display the bot's shots.
amcnett on HN
Hex grid variant with proximity feedback
From 1 comment
I always wondered if playing on a hex-grid with some feedback on how close is the nearest ship would make the game more interesting?
amenghra on HN
Questions
Are ships allowed to touch?
From 2 comments
Isn't there a rule that ship can't touch?
frozenport on HNNot that I can see here: http://www.hasbro.com/common/instruct/battleship.pdf
jmah on HN