Sweep Them Mines by Anthony West

[AnthonySWest]

Here is my entry for the Mine Sweeper challenge, titled, "Sweep Them Mines". It is patterned after the classic Windows 98 version, with similar rules.

https://github.com/AnthonySWest/sweep-them-mines

Features:

• Basic high score tracking (I might improve this later). Last 5 best times are tracked for each standard difficulty level (custom difficulty does not track scoring)
• Difficulty levels for Beginner, Intermediate, and Expert.
• Custom difficulty settings.
• Images are loaded from a folder on program start in order to support modding. The play field/grid will adjust in size if, for example, the sprites are changed to 64x64 images instead of 32x32 images.
• Dual clicking both mouse buttons at once offers a way to clear the mine field quickly, similar to the Win98 version. For example, clicking on a "2" indicator with both the left and right mouse buttons, with two surrounding flags to mark mines, will auto "discover" the remaining cells around the indicator. This will lead to a game loss if flags are not covering mines and a mine is uncovered.
• Undiscovered cells can be marked with a flag or a question mark by right-clicking the cell.
• First move safety.

Note: The UI relies on C++ Builder/VCL, but the majority of the underlying supporting code is intended to compatible with various C++ compilers. You will note a reliance on ASWTools, etc. instead of the VCL for various common methods. ASWTools has previously been private to me, but I decided to polish the needed parts up a bit and give something back to the community.

I had fun making this on the weekends with my kids. My son beta tested (so all remaining bugs are his fault ;) lol ) and one of my daughters assisted with the art work.

Pizza money donations are always appreciated:

PayPal: [email protected]

BitCoin: 15rKqL1numHJyE36ottMbhs5cmCjJkuowV

Screenshots:

[AnthonySWest]

Pushed new changes/tweaks. The question mark is optional now.

[SirRufo]

The link to the repo shows the correct url but the link itself points to https://github.com/orgs/radprogrammer/discussions/url

[AnthonySWest]

Weird lol. Fixed. Thanks!

[AnthonySWest]

Added a Rad290CE project folder, for those without a Pro license. C++ Builder 12 Community Edition has errors compiling the regular project because batch compilation is turned on 🤔.