A recreation of Minesweeper in a console. You know, I do these kind of things. Yeah.
And this is also the first project on the site, yay!!
It's already history, and the Young Me who wrote this has grown a lot since then.
Please take everything you read here with a grain of salt (and maybe some humor).
I wanted to make a Minesweeper game for quite some time, but I didn't know how to properly arrange a fixed number of bombs, randomly, on the table. But then, while working on another project, I needed to shuffle a List and I found an extension which does just that. And this gave me an-- sorry, the idea for bomb placement: set first N squares to bombs, and then shuffle the map! And this is what brought the idea a Visual Studio solution.
Because it was my attempt at the game and my project and because I have power over it and because why not, I added some extra things to the gameplay, to make the experience a bit more enjoyable. All of them were added because of my testing (aka playing).
Features
- Cannot configure the game from a menu, but rather from a file
- Playable with only the keyboard, not the mouse (yes, I consider this a feature)
- Displays time after game over
- Flagging system
- You are able to specify a seed or a number of bombs (default random and one eighth of total cells, respectively)
- (as of 1.3) Displays a progress bar that indicates the progress through the map
Specific or non-standard features
- Displays whole map after game over (I thought why not)
- Displays all flags placed over bombs, flags placed incorrectly and bombs with no flag in different colors after game over
- Keeps track on-screen of total bombs and total flags
- You cannot accidentally trigger a flagged bomb
- You cannot trigger a bomb on first move
- You will always uncover an empty square at first move, eliminating the frustration of uncovering a number
Other
- Best played with font Raster Font, size 12x16 (square-ish), Magnifier set to 200% and a Paint black background (my experience)
- Everything else you need to know is in the program
Known issues
- (fixed, 1.4) The seed system doesn't work for some reason and I don't know why..
Images
First version (1.1)
version 1.2 (b5)
version 1.3 (b6)
Downloads
You may need .NET Framework 4 or higher to run the game. The game language is English.
(available in the Versions card)
Source code
I don't have the source code for this anymore. It got deleted in an accident. lmao