Assignment 21 - Race Car Game

Example Output

Learning Outcomes

1. Encapsulation
2. Conditions
3. Loops
4. Arrays

Goals

The purpose of this assignment is to learn to

1. Create a game where the player drives a car around an ever-changing track.

Description

Tasks

• Initialize a 2D array the size of your game grid.
• Initialize the NamedColors and symbols for your car, walls and background.
• Create a function that places a wall on the left and right of your grid that outlines the road.
• Add additional conditions to your wall creation function to make the walls move closer to each other every few seconds.
• Add additional conditions to your wall creation function so that the walls move side to side every few seconds making it seem as though the road is turning.
• Create a function that allows the player to move the car left and right on the road.
• Create a function that checks for a collision between the car and the wall and triggers a game over.
• Create a function that places random objects that the player could crash into and trigger a game over.
• Create a win scenario.

More Details to Get You Started

Key Press Events - NonBlocking Games

• keyUp()
• keyDown()
• keyLeft()
• keyRight()
• keyQ()
• keySpace()
• keyW()
• keyS()
• keyA()
• keyD()

Key Press Events - Blocking Games

• getKeyPress(); Returns a string.
• "ArrowLeft"
• "ArrowRight"
• "ArrowUp"
• "ArrowDown"
• "w"
• "s"
• "a"
• "d"
• etc...

Variables, Colors, and Sprite Symbols

• NamedSymbol.symbolname;
• NamedColor.colorname;
• drawSymbol(column, row, NamedSymbol, NamedColor);
• setBGColor(column, row, NamedColor);

Important Functions

• The gameLoop() function loops until the game is over.
• quit() stops the game.
• start() starts the game and calls the initialize() function once before it starts the gameLoop() function.
• render() sends your updated game grid to the server once. This is a blocking game function.

Extensions

Help

For Java

NonBlockingGame documentation

For C++

NonBlockingGame documentation

For Python

NonBlockingGame documentation