Find the Hat is a game where you need to navigate a field with holes and try to find a hat while avoiding falling into a hole. The game is played in the command line interface.
Before you can play the game, you need to have Node.js installed on your computer.
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Clone the repository to your local machine using:
git clone https://github.com/your-username/find-the-hat.git -
Navigate to the project directory using the following command:
cd find-the-hat -
Install the dependencies using the following command:
npm install
To play the game, run the following command in the project directory:
node main.js
This will start the game and display the game field in the command line interface. The field consists of a grid of cells, with a hat ("^") and a player ("*") randomly placed on the grid. The player is always placed in the top-left corner of the grid.
To move the player, entering the following commands:
- U: Move the player up one row.
- D: Move the player down one row.
- L: Move the player left one column.
- R: Move the player right one column.
The goal of the game is to navigate the player to the hat without falling into a hole ("O") or falling out of the field. If the player falls into a hole, the game is over. If the player finds the hat, the game is won.
You can customize the game by modifying the following constants in the main.js file:
In the a const the three parameters are height, width an probability.
- WIDTH: The width of the game field.
- HEIGHT: The height of the game field.
- PROBABILITY: The probability of a hole being placed in each cell of the game field.
This game was inspired by a project in Codecademy's Front-End Engineer course.