XAYASHIPS GAME CHANNEL TECH DEMO
XAYA ships is a blockchain version of the classic naval warfare Battleship game.
Battleship has been around since at least the 1930s, but it was in 1967 that Milton Bradley created the plastic board and peg version that most people are familiar with. Its rules are relatively simple but gameplay is relatively quick and perfect to demonstrate the cutting edge Game Channels technology that XAYA allows.
XAYASHIPS RULES
There are many different variations on the rules for Battleship. Xayaships adopts a simple set of rules that are in common use.
When calling a shot, if it’s a hit, the hit is noted but which ship that is hit, isn’t. Also, after a hit, that player gets to fire again. As in all variants, when all ships are sunk on one side, that side oses and the opponent wins.
BLOCKCHAIN CHALLENGES
Blockchain suffers from many drawbacks and the most commonly spoken about is scalability.
Scalability for blockchain gaming means a few things:
1. Transaction speeds
2. Blockchain bloat|
3. Game complexity
The latter is solved by the unique method of how game states are computed on the Xaya platform.
The first 2 are solved with game channels technology.
UNITY FRONTEND DOWNLOADS
Latest download installer > https://downloads.xaya.io/installerS_0.2.0.exe
This installer is for windows and includes an intergrated electrum wallet. Get in discord for some free coins or free account so you can start playing Choose simple mode if you don’t know what you are doing for a “literode” experience.
This is still a Tech Demo
Previous releases:
Instructions / Guide > https://github.com/xaya/xaya_tutorials/wiki/Xayaships
Unity Front End / GUls (updated to 0.1.2 fixes pathing issues on windows). 0.1.3 improves performance
Windows (includes prebuilt backend binaries) >
https://downloads.xaya.lo/xayaships_win_0.1.3.zip
Linux - you will need to build libayagame and sudo make install and sudo Idfconfig for this to work >
https://downloads.xaya.io/xayaships_linux_0.1.3.zip
Mac - untested - but you will at least need to make libxayagame and install etc (will have issues with names with spaces) >
https://downloads.xaya.io/xayaships.mac.0.1.3.zip
THE CODE
Xayaships is fully open source and is included in the libxayagame GitHub repository here. If you build libxaygame it will build shipsd and the ships-channel executables.
Instructions for building libxaygame for Windows and Linux are here
https://github.com/xaya/xaya_tutorials/wiki/How-to-Compile-libxayagame-in-Windows
https://github.com/xaya/xaya_tutorials/wiki/How-to-Compile-libxayagame-in-Ubuntu
More information can be found here
https://github.com/xaya/libxayagame/tree/master/ships
SUPPORT
For developer or user support, visit our Discord channel for developers.