Space Invaders

Basic Implementation of the game Space Invaders using pygame library in python3

How to run

• Run all the commands in one terminal tab
• Install python3 and python3-venv

sudo apt install python3 python3-venv

• Create a virtual environment, activate the environment and install dependencies

python3 -m venv env
source env/bin/activate
pip install --upgrade pip && pip install -r requirements.txt

• Play the game

python3 src/Main.py

• After finishing playing, deactivate environment and clean up

deactivate
rm -r env/ src/__pycache__/

Controls

• A - Move left
• D - Move Right
• SPACE - Shoot missile A
• S - Shoot missile B
• Q - Quit

Details

• Missile A kills alien instantly increasing score by 1
• Missile B freezes the enemy for till 5 seconds after it hits the alien
• Aliens spawn randomly around the top region of the screen