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https://github.com/muhammadsaadhsn/rush-hour-game-opengl-utility-toolkit

I have built an interactive game called Rush Hour using C++ and the OpenGL Utility Toolkit. In this game a Taxi Cab drives around a busy city picking up passengers and dropping them off while avoiding multiple obstacles that come in its way.
https://github.com/muhammadsaadhsn/rush-hour-game-opengl-utility-toolkit

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I have built an interactive game called Rush Hour using C++ and the OpenGL Utility Toolkit. In this game a Taxi Cab drives around a busy city picking up passengers and dropping them off while avoiding multiple obstacles that come in its way.

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# Rush Hour Game



Rush Hour is a game for one player, in which the player takes up the role of a taxi driver who must collect money by dropping passengers to their

destinations.



## Game Start Menu



* When the game starts, a user is given the choice in the menu to view the leaderboard (displaying top 10 scores along with player names). The

high-scores and player names should be read from the file (named highscores.txt) on the hard-disk and stored in the arrays of size 10. If the score of the current game makes to the list of high-scores, the lowest score is

removed from the array and the new contents of the array overwrite the file. If the game is being played for the first time the leaderboard will be empty.

* The game can be played using one of the following, a yellow taxi and a red taxi.

An option will be shown to the user on screen to either assigning the taxi color

randomly or users can select the color themselves.



## The Board



* The board has two areas, roads(shown in white) and buildings (shown in black), cars can be driven anywhere on the roads.

* The board consists of the player’s taxi and other cars, obstacles and passengers.

* At the start of the game, the player’s taxi will be at the top left corner of the board as shown in the picture above. Other cars, obstacles and

passengers will be randomly spread out on the board.

* The board shall always have at least 3 and at most 5 passengers waiting to be picked up. The passengers can be present at any location on the

board except the position where other cars or obstacles are present.



## Game play



* The player’s taxi can move in all four directions (up, down, right and left using the four arrow keys ↑ ↓ → ← )

* The taxi has to avoid obstacles and other cars and get to the people waiting for a taxi. Once the taxi is next to a person, the player will press

the Spacebar to pick the passenger.

* A new board is generated every time a new game is started, however every corner in the board must be reachable. 35% of the board should be

buildings and the remaining 65% should be roads.



## Passenger’s Desired Destination



* Each passenger would have a desired destination on the board, that would be highlighted in GREEN once the taxi picks up the passenger. The

taxi has to get the passenger to the desired location as fast as possible.

* The desired destinations of the passenger will be a randomly generated position on the board. The destination cannot be a place occupied by an

obstacle.

* The desired destination of the passenger cannot be the same as the pickup location. To drop a passenger the player will press the Spacebar

after getting to the location.

* Once the taxi has picked up a passenger, they cannot drop them anywhere except for their desired destination.

* Every time the taxi picks up a passenger and drops them to their desired location the player gets 10 points.

* All passengers are in a rush and pay extra fare for overtaking another car, if the taxi overtakes another car on the board the player gets 1 extra

point for each overtake.



## Negative Points



* If the taxi hits a person -5 points

* If the taxi hits other obstacles the points deducted depend on the type of taxi: 

  * Red Taxi: Hits an obstacle (tree or box) -2 points

  * Red Taxi: Hits another car -3 points

  * Yellow Taxi: Hits an obstacle (tree or box) -4 points

  * Yellow Taxi: Hits another car -2 points



## Other features



* Cars other than the taxi cannot be red or yellow.

* All other cars on the board are also moving, they can move up, down, right and left. The other cars cannot stop anywhere during the game.

* Each time the taxi drops two passenger successfully at their desired destination the number of cars on the board will increase by 1.

* Each time the taxi drops two passenger successfully at their desired destination the speed of the cars on the board will increase.

* The two taxis can move at different speeds, the yellow taxi is faster than the red taxi.



## Winning Criteria



* The game would have a total running time of 3 minutes.

* If the player is able to score 100 points or more in 3 minutes, the player wins the game.