Battleship

🧭 Part IV: War at Sea ⚔️🌊

⚔️ Before you claim victory over the seas, it’s time to raise the stakes — two fleets, ten ships, and only one commander will sail away in triumph. Let the battle for oceanic domination begin! 🌊🛳️💥

🎯 Day 4: Scorekeeping, Showdowns, and Strategic Supremacy

You’ve fired test shots. You’ve taken out a few rogue ships. But now it’s full-scale war — and the tides have turned. This time, the computer isn’t just hiding… it’s fighting back. In today’s mission, you’ll upgrade your Battleship program from a shooting gallery to a competitive duel. Every turn matters. Every hit counts. And the last fleet standing rules the sea.

🎯 Objectives for Part IV:

📊 Implement a HIT/MISS display bar below the board

🔁 Create a turn-based battle system between player and computer

🚢 Randomly place 10 single-tile ships (5 for each side)

⚖️ After all ships are sunk, declare a winner

📊 TASK 1: Add a HIT/MISS Display Bar

🎮 What It Might Look Like:

Your players need a clear view of the battle status. It's time to add a HUD (Heads-Up Display) at the bottom of the board showing how many:

Shots have been taken
Hits have landed
Misses have occurred

DISPLAY THIS AT THE BOTTOM OF THE BOARD

🧠 How to Implement It

Create three variables: hits, misses, and total_turns
After each guess, update one of those values
After printing the board, print a summary line with f-strings or .format()

💡 Design flair: Use emojis like 🎯 for hits and 💨 for misses to make it fun!

🔁 TASK 2: Turn-Based Battle vs the Computer

💣 Two fleets enter. One fleet sinks. Choose your shots wisely.

This is the main event. You and the computer will take turns launching attacks until one fleet is completely destroyed.

🛠️ Setup:

- - - 10 total ships are placed (5 for player, 5 for computer)
    - Both sides take turns guessing
    - First to eliminate the other's 5 ships wins the war

🔁 Step-by-Step Gameplay Loop:

1. PLAYER'S TURN

- - Ask for input (e.g., "Enter location to fire (e.g., A3): ")
  - Validate and convert the input
  - Check if it hits a computer ship
    - - ✅ If hit: Add to player_hits
      - ❌ If miss: Add to player_misses
  - Update the board
  - Print updated board and HIT/MISS bar

2. COMPUTER'S TURN

Randomly guess a coordinate (generate row and col)

Check if that guess hits a player ship
- - ✅ If hit: Add to computer_hits
  - ❌ If miss: Add to computer_misses
Tell the player what the computer tried
Update The Board
NOTE: Make sure the computer doesn't guess the same spot twice!
- - - Use a list of guesses to check for repeats.

🏁 3: End Game Conditions & Victory Message

Check after each round:

Has the player hit 5 computer ships? 🏆
Has the computer hit 5 player ships? 💀

Once one side reaches 5 hits:

Display a Fun Message:

🎉 PLAYER WINS! The ocean belongs to you now.

-- OR --

💥 COMPUTER WINS! Your fleet is sunk. Time to regroup.

Complete the end game condition:
- - Prompt for New Game or To Quit

🧠 Operation Savepoint 💾⚓

🧾 Your battles are now recordable. Save your progress, analyze your stats, or continue the war another day — with JSON.

🎯 What’s the Twist?

Now you need to modify the game so you can save your game state to a .json file, then reload it later to continue right where they left off. Think of it like a save slot in a video game — perfect for turn-based systems, stat tracking, or testing new features.

📦 What Can You Save in the JSON?

Here’s a meaningful list of data to include...
Remember, when you do this, you'll need to provide the following options:
- - Save Game
    - - You can offer this in place of someone taking a turn, or via a special Key Sequence
  - Load Game
    - - This should be offered at the beginning of the game (start menu option)

The Command Console 🖥️🎮

🎛️ No captain sails without a proper control panel. It’s time to build your game’s Main Menu — because even digital wars need structure. ⚓

🎯 Objective

Create a fully functional Game Menu that lets the player choose what to do before the battle begins.

💡 What the Menu Should Do

✅ [1] Start New Game
- - Resets the board and starts fresh
  - Players place ships, computer randomly places ships
  - Begins the gameplay loop
✅ [2] Load Saved Game
- - Loads from battleship_save.json
  - Restores game state (from your JSON task)
✅ [3] How to Play
- - Display a quick message like:
    - - “Take turns entering coordinates like A3 or J10. Try to sink the enemy's ships before they sink yours!"
[4] Quit Game
- - Ends the program
  - (Optional: Add dramatic message like “The sea claims one more coward...”)

🏁 Final Tips for Style Points:

Add a splash screen or ASCII art for Battleship at the top
Use time.sleep() to add small delays for drama
Use .center() and .rjust() to format your menu cleanly

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