nbbattleship
terminal battleship naval combat game
TLDR
SYNOPSIS
nbbattleship
DESCRIPTION
nbbattleship is a terminal-based battleship game from the nbsdgames collection. Players place ships on a grid and then take turns guessing the positions of the opponent's ships. Hit all segments of a ship to sink it; sink all ships to win.The game uses an ncurses interface. Use arrow keys or hjkl to move, ENTER to shoot, R to rotate ships during placement, q to quit. Mouse input is also supported.
PREVIEW
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CAVEATS
Requires a terminal with ncurses support. Part of the nbsdgames collection. No command-line options are available.
HISTORY
nbbattleship is part of nbsdgames, a package of 18 text-based terminal games created by abakh. It implements the classic Battleship game, a strategy guessing game that originated as a pencil-and-paper game in the 1930s.
SEE ALSO
nbmines(1), nbsos(1), nbcheckers(1)
