Infinite Maze Game

Overview

Infinite Maze is a basic 'maze-style' game, in which participants attempt to get as far through the maze as possible while keeping a steady pace. The maze is randomly generated with each game, which adds to the difficulty of attempting to get as far as possible.

What makes this maze infinite is exactly that - there is no end to the maze. As long as participants are able to keep up with the pace of the maze, the game will never end.

Setup

The following commands in this section (bolded) should be run in a terminal window after navigating to the root directory of the application.

1. To install the requirements needed to run the game, type make.
2. To run the setup and initialization of the game, type python setup.py install.

Execution

To compile and execute the game, type python infinite_maze

Game Definitions

Term	Definition
Player	Represented by the 'dot' in game.
Pace	A game mechanic in which the game tries to catch up to the Player. When the Pace successfully catches up to the Player, the game is over.
Wall	Inhibits the movement of the Player.
Point	Awarded when the Player based on movement.

Game Rules

• Objective is to get as far right through the maze as possible without being caught by the pace.
• Points are awarded based on each movement the player performs to the right.
• Points are taken away based on each movement the player performs to the left.
• Pace will start at the 30 second mark, and become incrementally quicker every 30 seconds onwards.

Controls

Key	Action
w, a, s, d	up, left, down, right
space	pause
esc, q	end game
y, n	yes, no (when prompted)

Specifications

The only software needed to run this program is Python. Infinite Maze Game was developed and tested using Python (v3.10.4).

Special Features

Infinite Maze Game makes use of the Pygame library, which is a simple and easy way to create basic games, import images, and draw shapes. More information on Pygame can be found here.

For Developers

Code Structure

Directory	Description
./	All setup and information files.
./img/	Image resources used in the game.
./infinite_maze/	All Python code, and complied files.