HA! I'm glad someone noted this. Now is the screen could reveal your opponents square when you select it to reveal a battleship. THAT would be cool. I guess technically we can do this already. They have that material that goes opaque when you put a charge through it. That in individual squares in a grid pattern coupled with this stuff would be pretty cool....but expensive as hell.
Heck I could also see the above using used to create a "RADAR" feature in Battleship opening up 4 squares at a time. I need to patent this idea now :-P
Could you please tell me more about this material : "They have that material that goes opaque when you put a charge through it. That in individual squares in a grid pattern coupled with this stuff would be pretty cool....but expensive as hell." Thanks :)
Well, I was a child once and I remember that each player had two grids. On one, you arrange your ships and record opponent shots; on the other, you record your own shots.
Now, it doesn't take too much imagination to conceive a game with three (instead of four) grids in total: each player still arranges their ships on a private grid, but they also share a transparent grid that records both their shots. Simple and effective...
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Actually in Battleship you cant see the other side.... were u ever a child?
HA! I'm glad someone noted this. Now is the screen could reveal your opponents square when you select it to reveal a battleship. THAT would be cool. I guess technically we can do this already. They have that material that goes opaque when you put a charge through it. That in individual squares in a grid pattern coupled with this stuff would be pretty cool....but expensive as hell.
Heck I could also see the above using used to create a "RADAR" feature in Battleship opening up 4 squares at a time. I need to patent this idea now :-P
Could you please tell me more about this material :
"They have that material that goes opaque when you put a charge through it. That in individual squares in a grid pattern coupled with this stuff would be pretty cool....but expensive as hell."
Thanks :)
@Nick
Well, I was a child once and I remember that each player had two grids. On one, you arrange your ships and record opponent shots; on the other, you record your own shots.
Now, it doesn't take too much imagination to conceive a game with three (instead of four) grids in total: each player still arranges their ships on a private grid, but they also share a transparent grid that records both their shots. Simple and effective...
"Could you please tell me more about this material?"
http://www.avantisystemsusa.com/products/framless_partitions/lcd.htm
You need Flash :P