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Minesweeper Bomb Generation And Tile Revealing post

When I was creating a little Minesweeper game, I got confused at some points. My bomb generation didn't look quite right, and I for sure didn't quite get the whole cascading tile reveal thing. With a bit of internet research, I found what I was looking for. I'll explain it all in one place for my own and others' purposes.

Bomb Generation

When I started this project I attempted to use a random bomb generator. By this I mean on each square, before it gets generated, give it a one in 15 change of being a bomb. Personally, I'm not sure why this never looked right. Something about the layout of the bombs did not mimic the classic Minesweeper game.

After looking at some open source Minesweeper examples, I found the following algorithms:

  • X = R % W
  • Y = R // H

Where % is a [modulo] operator