Cleanup Challenge

Abstract

In Cleanup Challenge, the player controls a character (who we will call “the cleaner”), whose goal is to collect pieces of trash scattered around a roadway and return them to a trash can on the opposite side, which ends the game. At the same time, cars are racing across the street, which runs horizontally across the screen. If the person gets hit by a car, the game is over and no points are awarded. The player must strategically decide which pieces of trash they will be able to recover. This is made more challenging by slight variations in the speed of the cars that race past. At the beginning of the game, the trash is randomly scattered across the screen, which adds to the replayability value. The cleaner has eight-direction movement, controlled by the arrow keys, and collects trash by coming into contact with it.