1. Download the entire repository.
2. Run mines.exe file by double-clicking on file.

Game screen should show up immediately.

1. Download the entire repository.
2. Open repo in Terminal and run the following commands

 $ make
 $ ./mines

Game screen should show up immediately.

Below are some in-game screenshots:

Play this game like your standard Minesweeper game. Right-click to flag tiles that you think have bombs underneath. Do this before time runs out.

The following are variables that can be edited in file:

• WIDTHand HEIGHT - number of tiles in the Minesweeper board

Variable Configuration	Screenshot
WIDTH = 20; HEIGHT = 10;
WIDTH = 25; HEIGHT = 15;

• BOMBS - number of bombs planted into the game
• TS - tile size in your screen
• char * SKINTYPE - source file name for Minesweeper skin
• sTS - Tile size of source image in pixels

Here are some available skins:

File Name	Tile	Source tile size
minesweeper2.bmp		24px
minesweeper.bmp		200px

Program makes use of three 2D std::vectors to store the following information:

• Number of neighbouring bombs (any number >=9 signifies bomb within itself)
• Boolean cover (whether or not the tile has been revealed)
• Tile icon (whether the tile has been flagged/marked)

I considered two algorithms for implementing this:

How it works:

• The program will only begin to look for adjacent tiles to open once user has clicked on a tile.
• In the function, openBox, we breadth-first search algorithm to look for all the tile nearby until numbered tiles are found.

Pros:

• Simple to implement

Cons:

• Might take a while to load when there is a large number of tiles to be opened.

How it works:

• Identify tiles within the same “island” (group of tiles surrounded by numbered tiles to be opened during a single tile click) before game starts
• Use union-find algorithm to find all these tiles
• Not possible to implement simply as certain numbered tiles could belong to different islands depending on how the user clicks on the tiles during the game.

The following were used to create this game:

• C++
• Simple and Fast Multimedia Library (SFML)

• Function calls to be made recursive and elegant

Developed by: Tiffany Chong

SFML tutorial: Coding Made Easy (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCas000yWtwjvFzD2zB9Nzmw)