Cat Match

Ohio State University ENGR 1181.01 Autumn 2024 SDP entry made by Group A in MATLAB

Winning entry of the ENGR 1181 Category of the Autumn 2024 Fundamentals of Engineering Design Showcase hosted by the Department of Engineering Education

Version November 22 2024

Setup

1. You must first have MATLAB already installed. Currently not confirmed to work with Octave
2. Download and ensure all files are in the same folder
3. Open and/or run map_generation.m

Story

The sly grey dogs have taken all the dabloons! You, the heroic black cat, must fight the sly grey dogs by beating each of them in a series of memory matching games.

Defeat all the sly grey dogs to win!

Gameplay

• Travel around the world and find the grey dogs. Go next to them and interact with them. You will have to engage in card warfare with them.
• During your turn, you must chose two matching, unflipped cards in order to increase your score.
• The enemy will always take its turn after yours.
• You must correctly match more cards (get a higher score) than the enemy in order to win the battle.
• If you lose or the match ends with a tie, you will lose a life.
• You start out with two lives. Once you have zero lives, the game ends.

Controls

NOTE: DO NOT DIRECTLY CLOSE THE WINDOW AT ANY GIVEN TIME

Startup

• q to quit the game
• p to play the game

Main controls

• Arrow keys to move
• t to interact with NPC if standing directly next to them
• q to quit

Card game controls

• Move the mouse to move the cursor
• Click the left or right mouse button to choose one card
• ESC key to forfeit the game during your turn

Credits

Staff

• Connor Levak: Story, writing, movement mechanics, map graphics
• David Y. Liu: Card game mechanics, logic programming
• Morgan M. Hallett: Spritework and sprite design
• Saumil Srivastava: CPU player/enemy logic programming
• Matthew M. VanEtten: Title screen programming, map graphics

Special Thanks

• Dr. Shukufe Rahman
• All UTAs of ENGR 1181.01 Section (6421)
• The UTA who helped us during Open Lab meetings
• All the test players
• Autumn 2024 Fundamentals of Engineering Design Showcase staff and judges
• and you...

LICENSE FOR SIMPLE GAME ENGINE

Original game documentation: copyright (c) 2014, Kathleen Ossman and Gregory Bucks. Updated to include the Simple Game Engine: copyright (c) 2019, Jonathan Brown All rights reserved.

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