Minesweeper

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!!

Published: 2017-07-11

Versions and Links

1.1 (b4): ZIP

1.2 (b5): Changelog / ZIP(2017-07-12)

1.3 (b6): Changelog / ZIP(2017-07-13)

1.4 (b7): Changelog / ZIP(2017-07-14)

1.5 (b8): Changelog / ZIP(2017-07-24)

This is a 8-year old project ported from my old ucoz.org site.
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