GNOME Batalla Naval Documentation

1. Overview

The Gnome Batalla Naval is the implementation of the well-known game (at least in my country) "Batalla Naval". Perhaps the english name is "Naval Battleship" or something like that.

This is a slighty modified version of the original. This is a multiplayer, multirobot game. What I mean, is that you can play against multiple robots or humans. One play against the others, so when you fire, you fire against all the players ( but no you, of course ).

2. Rules

Each player must fill his board (the left one ) with 10 ships:

4 ships of one unit ( cell )
3 ships of two units ( cells )
2 ships of three units ( cells )
1 ship of four units ( cells ).

To put the ships correctly, dont put them in a diagonal-manner. And they must be one cell away from the others.

Press 'Random' to generate a valid board of ships.

Press 'Send Board' to validate them with the server.

Press 'Start' to start the game. You cant play alone. You must play against someone ( a robot, or a human ). If you have the 'Autolaunch robot' turned on, the server will launch a robot and will start the game.

If you want to play against more than one robot, just press 'Robot'

You must wait for your turn to fire ( in the right windows ).

3. Buttons

These are the meaning of the buttons:

CONFIG - Config the client with:

Player name
Server name
Server port number
Autolaunch robot

RANDOM - Generates a valid board
ROBOT - Launch a robot in the server
QUIT - Quit the game
CONNECT - Connect to server
DISCONNECT - Disconnect from the server ( aborts the game )
SEND BOARD - Send the board to the server
START - Start a game
SEND MESSAGE - Send message to other players
STATUS - Show the status of the players

Not connected
Connected
Ready to play
Playing
Playing turn
Game Over

4. Misc

The clients v0.70.x (bnpver 0x20) wont work correctly with older versions like 0.60.x (bnpver 0x11-0x14) and vice-versa.

The only (old) client I would like to upgrade is the ncurses. The othes ( GTK, XView ) wont be upgraded at least someone needs it.

The Windows 16bits client was done by Horacio Peña.

The last version of the game is in http://www.pjn.gov.ar/~rquesada/batnav.html

5. Copying

GNU GPL v2 or newer.