alexaegis / minesweeper

A minesweeper clone for the web using TinySlice! My state manager libary.

Minesweeper

The classic Win98 Minesweeper game recreated for the web using reactive technologies such as Svelte and RxJS. With some additional features of a Windows 2000 desktop interface like window management, and a taskbar together with a start menu.

Click on the image to try it out on github pages!

Also available @ Vercel

Comparison

Here's a screencapture from a Windows NT 2000 Virtual Machine:

Differences

I either can't fix these, or they would make no sense to fix. There are of course many more differences, these are the ones I noticed and thought worth mentioning.

• Font used does not contain actual bold versions of Tahoma at 8px
• The edges of the tiles and panels within Minesweeper have some 3D Object colored pixels where the edges meet. This cannot be replicated with the box-shadow trick, and regular inset/outset css borders have a sharp edge.
• The numbers are not pixelated. I've spent a lot of time making those numbers with clip-path's so they will stay. And I think I managed to capture the shape of the original pretty well.
• Some pixel are not exactly pixel shaped, that's thanks to browser rendering, can't do anything about that.
• The timer for Minesweeper in the original starts at 1, immediately as you start the game. I believe this is not correct so my timer switches to 1 only after a second after starting the game.

  My initial implementation actually did make the same mistake, and started from 1 immediately!

• The maximum size of a playfield in the original is 30 by 24, not much larger than the Expert preset. I raised this to 50 by 50.
• Pressing Cancel in the custom game window resets the game board in the original. I'm not going to do that.

Features

• Taskbar
  • Start button, animated Start Menu
  • Buttons for open programs
  • A clock
• Window Management
  • Movable
  • Minimizable (Animated!)
  • Resizable
  • Modals
  • Dropdowns
• Minesweeper Game
  • Original presets
  • Custom games
  • Highscores
  • Cheating (Recorded to the highscore!)
  • Unlocking the scheme (The original used W98 colors regardless of your scheme)

Known bugs

• Shortcuts do not work.

Planned features

• Cheese Terminator
• Basic scheme editor
• A tetris game would be cool

Styles

98.css with some tweaks.

Other art

Pixelart was done by me using Pixilart referencing imagery from Windows Virtual Machines.

minesweeper's Issues

State-hydration doesn't work anymore

If you refresh the page you should expect an ongoing game to still be ongoing

Try out movable instead of interact.js maybe that works with increased zoom levels

[feature] undo

Implement history in the engine, for the sake of it.

[feature] seeds

have a seed for the random field generation, reflect it in the url so the game is share-able.

Consider making the entire gamestate importable exportable

[bug] Game is finished with one mine left.

You can finish the game by having all tiles uncovered (as in the picture), but with the counter still showing bombs to be discovered.

To Reproduce
Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. Finish the game while letting 1 or two bombs not detected.

Expected behavior
I think it would be a lot clearer at the end to either

• let the user finish manually.
  or
• automatically uncover all bombs and clear the mine counter set to Zero.

[feature] snake

why not

[feature] cheese terminator

Add another game, see how easy it goes with the existing tools
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUOKIpKcbG8

cheats don't work

[bug] smiley is not centered after a 1000 seconds have passed

3+ digit timers makes the smiley shift to the left as its centered between the timers and the right one can get bigger.

when the start button is depressed, the text appears duplicated

The text appears as both depressed and not depressed

Nudge windows inwards if the viewport gets too small to display them

[feature] tetris

a must

Animate fullscreen too

[feature] tetrisweep

https://kertisjones.itch.io/tetrisweeper

[feature] Settings kills state

Going to settings shouldn't kill state of ongoing game. If you choose to start a new game then by all means, but just clicking settings and exiting shouldn't wipe game state.

Nice minesweeper BTW 👍

[bug] revealed tiles are clickable after the game ended

After the game is finished, revealed tiles are still clickable and the surround reveal feature is still working