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Subject: Release of BG Battleship 1.0
Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2012 16:12:02 +0800
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Hi,
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blind accessible game from Spoonbill Software.
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BG Battleship 1.0
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BG Battleship is a blind accessible version of the popular pencil
and paper game, Battleship.
Battleship is played between two players, each trying to be the
first to completely sink the enemy's fleet of ships. At the start of
the game, each player places their ships on their Ocean Grid. They
then take it in turns to fire a shot at their enemy's Ocean Grid.
They mark the result of that shot on their own Target Grid. This is
either recorded as a miss (by placing an X in the appropriate square
of the grid) or as a hit (by placing the initial letter of the type
of ship hit). The game continues in this fashion until one of the
two players has completely sunk all the other player's ships. That
player is declared the winner.
This is the basic game of Battleship. But there are heaps of
variations out there, and so to cater for as many of these
variations as possible, BG Battleship allows you to set a host of
Game Parameters to better reflect the game you are used to playing.
For instance, you can play the game in one of two Game Modes: Battle
mode which is played between two human players, or one human player
and one computer player. Solitaire mode where you play against
yourself, trying to sink the enemy's ships in as few shots as possible.
You can play the game with each player having a single shot at each
turn, or each player having a salvo of shots.
You can elect to place your ships manually, or you can get the
computer to place your ships automatically.
When placing ships, you can either allow adjacent ships to touch
each other, or not.
You can elect to give a player a bonus turn when they hit an enemy ship.
You can elect to only announce the ship type when an enemy ship has
been completely sunk, or whenever a hit is made.
You can change the size of the grids between 8 by 8 squares up to a
massive 20 by 20 squares.
You have up to 7 different ship types each of which can be varied in
length. Each ship type also has a count which determines how many of
that ship type will appear in your grid. This count can be varied
between zero and a maximum of 9.
The game comes with the Game Parameters set to default values. The
grid is 10 by 10 squares. Each player has one Aircraft Carrier, one
Battleship, one Cruiser, one Destroyer and one Submarine.
This is the 20th game in Spoonbill Software's Blind Gamers series of
games specifically written for blind and vision-impaired players.
You can browse descriptions of all 20 games in the Blind Gamers series at:
www.spoonbillsoftware.com.au/blindgamers.htm
If you would like a copy of this game, just reply to this email with
your full name and country of residence, and request BG Battleship 1.0
The reason I like you to send your full name and country with each
order is so that I can check in my data base to make sure I record
the order against the correct person. With thousands of clients in
my data base, there are several instances of people with the same
first name and same last name, and sometimes the only way to tell
them apart is by their country of residence, and this is not always
conveyed by a country code in your email address.
Ian Humphreys
Spoonbill Software
Albany, Western Australia
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