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# Moonsweeper — A minesweeper clone, on a moon with aliens, in PyQt.
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Explore the mysterious moon of Q'tee without getting too close to the alien natives!
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Moonsweeper is a single-player puzzle video game. The objective of the game is to
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explore the area around your landed space rocket, without coming too close to the
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deadly B'ug aliens. Your trusty tricounter will tell you the number of B'ugs in the
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vicinity.
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2018-02-19 20:34:51 +01:00
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2018-02-19 17:11:17 +01:00
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This a simple single-player exploration game modelled on _Minesweeper_
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where you must reveal all the tiles without hitting hidden mines.
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This implementation uses custom `QWidget` objects for the tiles, which
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individually hold their state as mines, status and the
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adjacent count of mines. In this version, the mines are replaced with
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alien bugs (B'ug) but they could just as easily be anything else.
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2018-02-19 20:34:51 +01:00
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2018-02-19 17:11:17 +01:00
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2019-05-28 00:11:53 +02:00
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> If you think this app is neat and want to learn more about
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PyQt in general, take a look at my [free PyQt tutorials](https://www.learnpyqt.com)
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which cover everything you need to know to start building your own applications with PyQt.
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2018-02-19 17:11:17 +01:00
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## Code notes
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### Cheating the first turn
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In many *Minesweeper* variants the initial turn is considered a free
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go — if you hit a mine on the first click, it is moved somewhere else.
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Here we cheat a little bit by taking the first go for the player, ensuring that
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it is on a non-mine spot. This allows us not to worry about the bad first move
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which would require us to recalculate the adjacencies.
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We can explain this away as the "initial exploration around the rocket"
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2018-02-19 21:25:25 +01:00
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and make it sound completely sensible.
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## Other licenses
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Icons used in the application are by [Yusuke Kamiyaman](http://p.yusukekamiyamane.com/).
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