geofrey/sweeper

Minesweeper RPG

sweeper's Issues

Make this live-playable.

I've seen projects that you can browse to and play directly from GitHub. Like this game. Is that what Pages are for?

• Research
• Make it so

Flags

Ability to mark squares we suspect of containing a mine.

Code cleanup.

Yes I know this needs more structure. Even the CSS.
Gotta go find some best practices.

high danger counts make the board columns stretch

and mess up the monster backgrounds, too

Show monster list with levels

Copypaste from Mastodon:
I'd suggest to give a list below from monsters level 1 to whatever level max it is, so you know which is 1, which is 2, etc. Since I needed to keep thinking which level monster that was again when I'm adding up stuff.

Need some stylin'

Don't die on first click

Either wait until the first click to place bombs (so we know where to avoid putting one), or if the first click finds a bomb, move it somewhere else.

Player Health / Monster Levels

Some kind of health structure. Initial implementation could be a simple 'subtract level from health' and if you run out, you dead.

Reveal board

After go boom, show where the rest of the mines were.

Game status banners aren't cleared on 'reset'.

Victory

'Victory': No unmined squares remain closed.

cells revealed by gameover look the same as properly-cleared mines

Game Over

'Defeat': No health remaining. (Stop accepting clicks after go boom.)

Browser in-page search steals focus from flagging

When Firefox's auto-search (accessibility.typeaheadfind.autostart) is turned on, pressing 'f' to flag a square begins a search and the keyboard focus moves to the search input, interfering with further flagging/unflagging.

Monster images

We have little bombs for the 'classic' track, which can stay on as the level-1 monster image. Need some critters for additional levels. Or maybe killer robots.

Can't see monster count in cleared cells.

Particularly in denser boards it gets very difficult to proceed without seeing how many more minesters are nearby. Since the concept is 'fight them all' it makes sense to be able to get more information from a cell after opening it up.

flagging with levels

Double-clicking a mine count in classic Minesweeper

Double-clicking a mine count in classic Minesweeper would automatically open adjacent cells if there were enough flags set - does this feature make sense in RPG mode?

background image tiles and the container is too big. looks funny.

Monster Fight

I like the system here.

when a mine is cleared and there are no adjacent monsters, the surrounding cells auto-clear

This looks strange when we can't ^yet^ see the mine counts around mined cells.

flagging is still available after game over

JS doesn't run on mobile

Auto-clear weak monsters

Classic rules automatically clear around cells that are completely unthreatened. But we can also proceed in safety if the total danger to a cell is less than the player's current level. Ex. player is at level 5 and a cell is bordered by two level-2 monsters. 5 > 4 so even if all the threat is from one source we still know it's safe to click all over the place.

Noob mode: Recalculate danger counts

Don't include defeated monsters in empty cells' danger calculation.

CSS problems

• Table row height changes when the last is removed - Shrinks down by a pixel or two.
• Mine image background repeat shows through because opened cells are too large? (Visible at game-over)

Neighboring-squares calculation is wrong.

The adjacent-squares list is miscomputing coordinates.
I started the project late last night and didn't have enough awake to fix the count.
I think it's a concatenation-instead-of-addition bug again.