🏃‍♂️ Chase Game

Welcome to Chase, a strategic survival game where you navigate a maze filled with lethal robots. Your goal is simple but challenging: outsmart the machines by tricking them into colliding with each other or crashing into obstacles. Use your ability to move obstacles and even teleport to survive the mechanical onslaught!

📸 Demo

📍 Table of Contents

• 📝 Description
  • 🧩 Key Features
  • 🧱 Project Structure
  • 🛠️ Technologies
• 🚀 Getting Started
  • 📋 Prerequisites
  • ⚙️ Installation
• 💡 Usage
• 🤝 Contributing
• 📄 License

📝 Description

Developed as a university project, Chase focuses on structured programming and grid-based movement logic. It features a tactical environment where every move counts, as the robots move closer to your position with every step you take.

🧩 Key Features

• Tactical Movement: Full 8-direction movement (orthogonal and diagonal).
• Movable Obstacles: Push obstacles strategically to block or destroy robots.
• Robot AI: Robots follow the shortest path to the player, allowing for calculated lures.
• Panic Button: Use the Teleport feature for a random chance at survival when cornered.
• Collision Physics: Smart detection for robot-to-robot and robot-to-obstacle destruction.

🧱 Project Structure

Chase/
├── graphics/ # UI rendering and Gamelib integration
├── img/ # Gameplay and Game Over screenshots
├── src/ # Core game mechanics (chase.py)
├── main.py # Entry point
└── LICENSE # MIT License

🛠️ Technologies

• Python 3.x
• Gamelib: A lightweight thread-based rendering library for Python interfaces.

🚀 Getting Started

📋 Prerequisites

• Python 3.10 or higher installed on your system.

⚙️ Installation

1. Clone the repository:

   git clone git@github.com:SebaB29/chase.git
   cd chase

💡 Usage

To start the game, simply run the main script:

python main.py

You control the Player (♥). Every time you move, the Robots (☻) move one step closer.

🎮 Controls

Key	Action
W	Move Up
S	Move Down
A	Move Left
D	Move Right
Q	Up-Left (Diagonal)
E	Up-Right (Diagonal)
Z	Down-Left (Diagonal)
C	Down-Right (Diagonal)
Space	Teleport
P	Pause / Resume

⚙️ Game Entities

• ♥ Player: You!
• ☻ Robot: Destroys you on contact.
• ☼ Obstacle: Can be moved and destroys robots on contact.

🤝 Contributing

1. Fork the project.
2. Create your Feature Branch (git checkout -b feature/AmazingFeature).
3. Commit your changes (git commit -m 'Add some AmazingFeature').
4. Push to the Branch (git push origin feature/AmazingFeature).
5. Open a Pull Request.

📄 License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details.