Table of Contents

• About the Project
  • Information
  • Features
  • Built With
• Getting Started
  • Prerequisites
  • Installation
  • Usage
  • Roadmap
  • Contributing
  • License
  • Contact
  • Acknowledgements and Credits

About the Project

Information

This project is a basic Space Invaders game. It is not your usual space invaders, but, there are aliens coming down at increasingly difficult speeds. This was my first project using a library actually used to make games.

The game does not have a start menu or a proper ending. It does have a scoring system for each hit, there are also some effect and a background theme song.

Features

Here are some of the features of the project:

• Colourful Background
• 1 Type of Enemy Spaceship
• 1 Type of Player Spaceship
• Theme Song
• Laser Beam effect
• Explosion/Collision effect
• Scoring/Point system
• Collision Checking
• Game Over Checking

Built With

This project was made with:

• PyGame
• PyGame.mixer

Getting Started

Requirements and details on how to get the game running

Prerequisites

Requirements:

• Python3.6+
  Download Python3.8.6: https://www.python.org/downloads/release/python-386/
• pip3
• PyGame
  For Python3.6 - 3.7: pip3 install pygame
  For Python3.8: pip3 install pygame==2.0.0.dev6

Other Requirements:

• Warnings (Module)
• PyGame.mixer (in PyGame)
• Random (Module)
• Math (Module)
• Time (Module)

Installation

1. Make sure you have correctly completed the Prerequisites.
2. Clone the repository
   git clone https://github.com/RealKevinApetrei/Space-Invaders/

Usage

Information on how to use the game itself.

• Movement and Action:
  • Move Left: Left Arrow Key or A
  • Move Right: Right Arrow Key or D
  • Fire Laser: Space Bar

The game ends when an alien gets too far down at a certain point.

You earn points for each alien destroyed. Game difficulty increases for each row they pass.

(There is no documentation available.)

Roadmap

See the open issues for a list of proposed features (and known issues).

Contributing

Contributions are what make the open source community such an amazing place to be learn, inspire, and create. Any contributions you make are greatly appreciated.

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

Distributed under the GPL-3.0 License. See LICENSE for more information.

Contact

Kevin Apetrei - @KevinApetrei - [email protected]
Project Link: https://github.com/RealKevinApetrei/Space-Invaders

Acknowledgements and Credits

• Video Used
• Icon made by 'Freepik' on 'https://www.flaticon.com/'.
• EDITED Background made by 'https://www.freepik.com/'.
• Player made by 'Freepik' on 'https://www.flaticon.com/'.
• Enemy made by 'Good Ware' on 'https://www.flaticon.com/'.
• Bullet made by 'Good Ware' on 'https://www.flaticon.com/'.