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https://github.com/riascho/mazegame

simple node.js maze game
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# Challenge Project: Find Your Hat (Maze Game)



This is from the Codecademy [Backend Course Project - "Find Your Hat"](https://www.codecademy.com/journeys/back-end-engineer/paths/becj-22-back-end-development/tracks/becp-22-basics-of-back-end-development/modules/wdcp-22-challenge-project-find-your-hat-52ae5746-1903-4e25-a4bf-1714d3252e5e/projects/find-your-hat)



## Project Goals



In this project, you’ll be building an interactive terminal game. The scenario is that the player has lost their hat in a field full of holes, and they must navigate back to it without falling down one of the holes or stepping outside of the field.



## Project Requirements



1. Your project is centered on a `Field` class. This and the following tasks will describe how the class should function at a high level, and it will be up to you to figure out the implementation in code. As you go, test your code by creating instances of the class and calling its methods.



2. The `Field` constructor should take a two-dimensional array representing the “field” itself. A field consists of a grid containing “holes” (O) and one “hat” (^). We use a neutral background character (░) to indicate the rest of the field itself. The player will begin in the upper-left of the field, and the player’s path is represented by \*.



Example field:



```

*░O

░O░

░^░

```



Your class should take a single argument representing the field:



```javascript

const myField = new Field([

  ["*", "░", "O"],

  ["░", "O", "░"],

  ["░", "^", "░"],

]);

```



3. Give your `Field` class a `.print()` method that prints the current state of the field. You can choose to format this however you want, but it will be much easier to play the game if you print out a string representation of the board instead of the raw array.



4. Your game should be playable by users. In order to facilitate this, build out the following behavior:



- When a user runs `main.js`, they should be prompted for input and be able to indicate which direction they’d like to “move”.

- After entering an instruction, the user should see a printed result of their current field map with the tiles they have visited marked with \*. They should be prompted for their next move.

- This should continue until the user either:

  - Wins by finding their hat.

  - Loses by landing on (and falling in) a hole.

  - Attempts to move “outside” the field.

- When any of the above occur, let the user know and end the game.



5. Add a `.generateField()` method to your `Field` class. This doesn’t need to be tied to a particular instance, so make it a static method of the class itself.



This method should at least take arguments for height and width of the field, and it should return a randomized two-dimensional array representing the field with a hat and one or more holes. In our solution, we added a third percentage argument used to determine what percent of the field should be covered in holes.



## Project Extensions (todo's)



- [x] Have the character start on a random location that’s not the upper-left corner.

- [ ] Create a “hard mode” where one or more holes are added after certain turns.

- [ ] Improve your game’s graphics and interactivity in the terminal. There are many helpful packages to assist with this, and you can really get creative with how you approach terminal games.

- [ ] Create a field validator to ensure that the field generated by `Field.generateField()` can actually be solved. This might be pretty difficult! You’ll essentially be creating a version of a maze solver.