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Peanut's Cat Chase Game

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Peanut's Cat Chase!

Objective: Catch all the cats

Built with Javascript, jQuery, HTML and CSS

• Move the dog image with the cursor to catch all the cats. When cats are gone, the game is won.
• If timer runs out, game is over

The game relies on collision detection to determine whether the dog is touching the cat. Once able to determine the width, height and x, y coordinates of the elements to detect, an if statement can be used to set certain actions to occur when the elements collide. In the case of Peanut's Cat Chase, when the cat and dog touch the cat changes to a "dead" cat face and makes a cat noise, and the div is removed from the DOM. As each cat is caught, a small cat head appears in a score box in the upper right corner to keep tabs on the number caught. Collision detection was turned off on the "dead" cats in order to acheive one cat to appear in the score for each cat caught. A check winner function is called after the dead cat is removed, if all of the dead cats are gone the game is over.