ENGG1340_Group70

TEAM MEMBERS:

• Nicholas Wilson Kurniawan 3036011720
• Dorjderem Namsraijav 3035962362
• Richie Wilynnton 3036094332
• Guo Pengyu 3036105507
• Cheung Tsz Wing 3036067262

Game Description:

Text-Based 3D-Racing Game->

• The goal of the game is to finish one loop in the shortest possible time.
• The track of each game is different.
• The track will be looped forever in one game, the best record of one loop will be shown.
• Players can steer the car left and right, and speed up/slow down the car.
• Be careful! Going off track will significantly slow down the car, so make sure to stay on track, especially when going around curvatures!
• The higher the speed, the slower the steering, so manually slowing down is sometimes uesful to avoid going off track.

Controls ->

• "A" - Steer Left
• "D" - Steer Right
• "W" - Speed up
• "S" - Slow down
• "Q" - Quit the game (anytime)

Features

• Generation of random game sets or events
  The curvatures (turns) that are generated in the track were randomized.
  By introducing randomization to the generation of track curvatures, each game will offer a unique experience with an entirely different course layout, adding to the game's replay value and excitement.

• Options for color and difficulty.

• Data structures for storing game status
  -Classes
  Object-Oriented Programming (Reduce Conflicts of Variables)
  Store variables and method functions.
  Improve the readability and maintainability of code.
  -Vectors
  Store information of the distances and curvatures of each track section
  Store laptimes of each round of attempts.

• Dynamic memory management
  After finishing every round, the values stored in the classes need to be reset to their default values.
  To do this, we used the "new" function to allocate new memory for the classes to be used in the next round.

• File input/output
  In order to easily implement the design of the car and the background, we first designed them inside a .txt file using numbers.
  Then, we extracted the values from the .txt files and converted the numbers to their dedicated colors using "init_pair" from the NCurses library. Designing the sprites through this method proved to be far more efficient and effective than manually editing each pixel through code.

• Multiple Files
  To enhance code organization, each class is stored in a separate file and later imported into the main file where they are utilized.

Libraries:

• NCurses ->
  By utilizing this library, we were able to enhance the presentation of our game by rendering it with vibrant colored pixels instead of plain keyboard characters, resulting in a more visually appealing and intuitive user interface with improved overall design.

Instructions:

• Run these commands in the terminal in the following order->

1. "make"
2. "./main"

• After this, resize the terminal according to the size specified on the screen. If the terminal is already properly sized, the menu screen should pop up.
• We recommend to check out the 'Optons' tab first, where you can choose the difficulty you want to play in and the customize your car.
• Go to "Options" to change the difficulty and the color of he car using "w", "a", "s", "d" and "Enter"
• Return and start playing the game