[real-eyes] Fw: Release of BG Battleship 1.0
- From: "Reginald George" <adapt@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <real-eyes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, <nutkc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2012 12:23:20 -0500
FYI
Reg
Hi,
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BG Battleship 1.0
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BG Battleship is a blind accessible version of the popular pencil and paper
game, Battleship.
Battleship is played between two players, each trying to be the first to
completely sink the enemy's fleet of ships. At the start of the game, each
player places their ships on their Ocean Grid. They then take it in turns to
fire a shot at their enemy's Ocean Grid. They mark the result of that shot
on their own Target Grid. This is either recorded as a miss (by placing an X
in the appropriate square of the grid) or as a hit (by placing the initial
letter of the type of ship hit). The game continues in this fashion until
one of the two players has completely sunk all the other player's ships.
That player is declared the winner.
This is the basic game of Battleship. But there are heaps of variations out
there, and so to cater for as many of these variations as possible, BG
Battleship allows you to set a host of Game Parameters to better reflect the
game you are used to playing.
For instance, you can play the game in one of two Game Modes: Battle mode
which is played between two human players, or one human player and one
computer player. Solitaire mode where you play against yourself, trying to
sink the enemy's ships in as few shots as possible.
You can play the game with each player having a single shot at each turn, or
each player having a salvo of shots.
You can elect to place your ships manually, or you can get the computer to
place your ships automatically.
When placing ships, you can either allow adjacent ships to touch each other,
or not.
You can elect to give a player a bonus turn when they hit an enemy ship.
You can elect to only announce the ship type when an enemy ship has been
completely sunk, or whenever a hit is made.
You can change the size of the grids between 8 by 8 squares up to a massive
20 by 20 squares.
You have up to 7 different ship types each of which can be varied in length.
Each ship type also has a count which determines how many of that ship type
will appear in your grid. This count can be varied between zero and a
maximum of 9.
The game comes with the Game Parameters set to default values. The grid is
10 by 10 squares. Each player has one Aircraft Carrier, one Battleship, one
Cruiser, one Destroyer and one Submarine.
This is the 20th game in Spoonbill Software's Blind Gamers series of games
specifically written for blind and vision-impaired players. You can browse
descriptions of all 20 games in the Blind Gamers series at:
www.spoonbillsoftware.com.au/blindgamers.htm
If you would like a copy of this game, just reply to this email with your
full name and country of residence, and request BG Battleship 1.0
The reason I like you to send your full name and country with each order is
so that I can check in my data base to make sure I record the order against
the correct person. With thousands of clients in my data base, there are
several instances of people with the same first name and same last name, and
sometimes the only way to tell them apart is by their country of residence,
and this is not always conveyed by a country code in your email address.
Ian Humphreys
Spoonbill Software
Albany, Western Australia
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