Cat Game

Note

Open main.cpp for the game's source code.

A simple game centered around color detection, where the score is accumulated by hitting a cat with green objects. Press q or Q to exit.

For Windows 10/11 the release .exe works out of the box.

gif of the initial build of cat game

Note

Both the OpenCV build and the release were made for Windows. Linux instructions are provided at the bottom.

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Compiling on Windows

The OpenCV build was made for running via MinGW g++. Specifically, I compile the program using:

g++ -o cat_game main.cpp -I"include" -L"include/mingw/lib" -lopencv_core4100 -lopencv_imgproc4100 -lopencv_imgcodecs4100 -lopencv_highgui4100 -lopencv_videoio4100 -mwindows

To run OpenCV within Visual Studio, the Windows release available at opencv.org is recommended.

The OpenCV build was made via:

cmake -G "MinGW Makefiles" -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release -DBUILD_SHARED_LIBS=ON -DCMAKE_C_COMPILER=gcc -DCMAKE_CXX_COMPILER=g++ -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=insert_destination_path -S insert_source_path -B insert_build_path

Within the build folder:

mingw32-make

mingw32-make install

However, all necessary files to compile and run are included in the source code.

Linux (Debian-based)

My OpenCV build is likely not suitable for Linux; thus, only the main.cpp and 089.jpg files are necessary.

First, install OpenCV and g++ using:

sudo apt install libopencv-dev build-essential

Then, compile using:

g++ main.cpp -o program `pkg-config --cflags --libs opencv4`