Golang Minesweeper

Go minesweeper

Basic implementation of minesweeper game in CLI built with golang

Go minesweeper demo

Motivation

One day I could not sleep for some reason. So, to clear out my boredom I decided to write basic random mines + counting mines for fun, Which did help to sleep that night. Also, I wanted to learn how to work with terminal UI & it was a while since I wrote some go code. Well, the whole thing turns out to be a great learning experience.

Requirements to run

I am not sure if the old go version will work but you can try.

Go 1.16+

How to run

go run \*.go

How to build

Or you can download directly from the release section (opens in new tab) of the GitHub repository for your OS. If you download the binary from tags you have to chmod the binary chmod 777 ./minesweeper-macos or chmod 777 ./minesweeper-linux based on your os.

go build -o minesweeper
./minesweeper

Code architecture

This is my first time writing a small-scale go project. Please provide your feedback by raising an issue.

constants.go contains shared variables
engine.go contains all raw logic to calculate bombs, grid & bomb counts
main.go binds engine with ui
models.go contains struct
ui.go contains all logic to trigger/update ui based on data