Orbital (Artemis Level): Space Invaders

Team name: Space Defenders

Level of achievement: Artemis

Video Links #

• LiftOff: Liftoff Video

• Milestone 1: Milestone 1 Video

• Milestone 2: Milestone 2 Video

• Milestone 3: Milestone 3 Video

• Splashdown: Splashdown Video

• Download Link: Windows v1.2

• Download Link: Mac v1.2

• Feedback Link: here Click here to provide any feedback you want to share

Objectives: #

1. Make a Space invaders game
2. Make use of AI to play the game decently.
3. Combine them together for more immersive game play experience

Tech Stack #

1. Game play and Graphics
   • Pygame: Used for making the game and the animations
2. AI and Data Science Technologies
   • Actually used in the game
     • Numpy: Fast Array Computation
   • Used for gym invaders extension
     • Gym: For making the AI agent for the game
     • Pytorch: Provides the Neural Network Infrastructure
     • Matplotlib: Visualizing Data and Debugging
     • OpenCV 2: Image Preprocessing and video playback
3. Optimization Technologies
   • Sockets and pickle: For sending data across the network
   • Multiprocessing and Asyncio: Running stuff in parallel to make them faster
   • Sqlite3: For storing items in the databases
4. Software Engineering
   • PyUnit: For unit tests
   • cx_Freeze: Compilation of python to executable

Development RoadMap #

Proposal #

• Link to proposal : here

Useful Links #

• Orbital main webpage: here
• Orbital projects page: here

Contributors #

• Stephen: LinkedIn
• Junhua: LinkedIn

Project Log #

• Project Log: Link

Program Flow #

Links #

• Github