[Stonos]

This is a Minesweeper clone.
If you don't know how to play Minesweeper, watch this video.



The red block is the selected block. Move it with the joystick or the 2/4/6/8 keys. Uncover a box by pressing 5, clicking the joystick or by pressing the left softkey. Flag a mine using the right softkey. Unflag it by pressing the right softkey again.

This elf was coded with multiple resolutions in mind, so it should work on all resolutions.
Keep in mind however, that you will always have to sweep 30 mines independent of the resolution.

Known bugs:

• Counter doesn't automatically update
  
• Gets very slow after playing for some time (happens because of all the numbers on the screen ... blah...)
  
• Memory leaks
  
• Random crashes

You can get the source code from ACEEL.
Developers: If you want to work on this elf, feel free to, however, please post in this thread before starting your work saying what you're going to do so that we don't end up working on the same thing!
Also, please don't add bcfg options yet. I want to add a custom configuration window. We'll see how this will turn out...

Information for v1.3
Information for v1.4

Have fun and please post feedback!

Attached File(s)

•  MinesweeperClone1.2.zip (6.46K)
  Number of downloads: 45
•  MinesweeperClone1.3.zip (5.86K)
  Number of downloads: 37
•  MinesweeperClone1.4.zip (28.73K)
  Number of downloads: 55

This post has been edited by Stonos: 20 July 2009 - 10:43 PM

[jarankore]

Great elf....!!!



But, can the elf working on W810 ?

[Stonos]

jarankore, on 2009-02-07 11:30, said:

Great elf....!!!



But, can the elf working on W810 ?

It should work.
Have you tried it?

[black_mamba]

It's really nice.....
Total time pass Elf

[hippy dave]

cool
i haven't tried it yet, but i noticed your description didn't mention one important feature from other versions, that would be worth including if you haven't already.
normally, if you press both mouse buttons on a number square, and you have already marked the right number of mines in the squares surrounding that number, then all the empty squares around it will be automatically cleared.
it doesn't sound like much but once you're in the habit it saves a lot of time over clicking the empty squares individually
pressing both softkeys at the same time on a phone might not be so convenient, or even work properly, so maybe you could do this using one of the normal keypad keys instead.

This post has been edited by hippy dave: 07 February 2009 - 02:08 PM

[Planfrei]

Tried it, looks awesome. However I have cleared all clearable fields and so had to mark the mines to win. I did that but on at having done half of it, my phone restarted

[Stonos]

black_mamba, on 2009-02-07 15:41, said:

It's really nice.....
Total time pass Elf

Thanks

hippy dave, on 2009-02-07 16:15, said:

cool
i haven't tried it yet, but i noticed your description didn't mention one important feature from other versions, that would be worth including if you haven't already.
normally, if you press both mouse buttons on a number square, and you have already marked the right number of mines in the squares surrounding that number, then all the empty squares around it will be automatically cleared.
it doesn't sound like much but once you're in the habit it saves a lot of time over clicking the empty squares individually
pressing both softkeys at the same time on a phone might not be so convenient, or even work properly, so maybe you could do this using one of the normal keypad keys instead.

I'll see what I can do, thanks for the suggestion :yes:

Planfrei, on 2009-02-07 18:13, said:

Tried it, looks awesome. However I have cleared all clearable fields and so had to mark the mines to win. I did that but on at having done half of it, my phone restarted

I've thought about adding the ability to clear all the other blocks to win, but this would have probably made the elf even slower than it is. Not sure, I'll see what can be done about it.
About the crashing problem, I know that the phone will randomly crash, but I don't know why exactly this happens

[Stonos]

Updated MinesweeperClone to v1.3
Changes:
-Added hippy dave's suggestion: "normally, if you press both mouse buttons on a number square, and you have already marked the right number of mines in the squares surrounding that number, then all the empty squares around it will be automatically cleared". Press the asterisk key to see it in action.
-Selected block is now transparent
-Selected block can not move out of the screen now.
-Fixed support for 176x220 phones
-You can now flag a mine by pressing the number sign (#) key
-You can not uncover flagged mines now.
-A flagged mine won't disappear if an empty block is behind it
-Improved speed a little

This post has been edited by Stonos: 09 February 2009 - 06:37 PM

[hippy dave]

tried it, looking great thanks for implementing my suggestion, it's working well.
couple of things i noticed - if i either win the game or accidentally click on a mine, after the message pops up ("you're winner"/"you're loser"), it returns to the game and keeps going, rather than restarting. i haven't found a way to restart the game other than to exit the elf and reload it.
one time when i reloaded the elf, the phone rebooted. hasn't happened again yet tho.

other than that, all good! i would like to see an option for how many mines there are to be found, but i'm sure you have that planned already. keep up the good work!

[Stonos]

hippy dave, on 2009-02-10 03:39, said:

tried it, looking great thanks for implementing my suggestion, it's working well.
couple of things i noticed - if i either win the game or accidentally click on a mine, after the message pops up ("you're winner"/"you're loser"), it returns to the game and keeps going, rather than restarting. i haven't found a way to restart the game other than to exit the elf and reload it.
one time when i reloaded the elf, the phone rebooted. hasn't happened again yet tho.

other than that, all good! i would like to see an option for how many mines there are to be found, but i'm sure you have that planned already. keep up the good work!

Well, if you lose, you can't win because you can't flag the mine you blew up!
Seriously now, I know about it, and I will probably do something about it in the next version. Thanks for reporting

I don't know about the random restarts. I have many checks to make sure that the phone won't crash, but apparently it does sometimes

If you have IAR then you can easily change the number of mines by editing (check board.h line 5). However, it seems that a low number of mines makes the phone crash. I think the problem is on the function that uncovers the adjacent empty blocks. But like I said, I've some checks there to make sure that the phone won't crash. I'll have to look at it more closely I guess...

[Stonos]

Finally, MinesweeperClone v1.4 is here!

Changes from v1.3:

• Icons will now be used where appropriate (flag, mine, incorrect flagged mine (appears when you lose)) instead of numbers or letters (stolen from Microsoft Windows pre-Vista Minesweeper versions). Also included the original YOU'RE WINNER image when you win.
  
• You will now be able to see the mines you didn't flag if you lose. You will also be able to see which blocks (if any) you flagged incorrectly as mines in case you lose.
  
• Small optimizations

The attachment is at the first post. New screenshots also on the first post.

NOTE: Make sure you have at least 22KB free memory in your phone!

[Boysie]

Thanks man. Some nice improvements.

[firoz3321]

Really nice.

I just didn't know how to EXIT in the version 1.3.

I didnt try the 1.4 yet though.

Really great time pass ...

[Stonos]

firoz3321, on 2009-07-17 15:38, said:

Really nice.

I just didn't know how to EXIT in the version 1.3.

I didnt try the 1.4 yet though.

Really great time pass ...

You can either use BookManager or you can long-press the back button

[firoz3321]

Stonos, on 2009-07-17 19:26, said:

You can either use BookManager or you can long-press the back button

Hey LONG PRESS is good.

Thanks

[hippy dave]

great improvement, thanks
it would be good if it could detect when you have won by clearing all the empty squares, even if you have not marked all the mines. i don't know how much harder that would be...