constantinadrian / alien_invasion

Alien Invasion clone

Alien Invasion

Alien Invasion game build in pygame. The game was addapted and modified from PYTHON CRASH COURSE by ERIC MATTHES.

Table of Contents

1. UX

   • Structure

   • Surface

2. Technologies Used

3. Deployment

   • Local Clone

4. Credit

5. Disclaimer

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• UX:

  • Structure

    • Features:

      • Existing Features:

        • Multi-level game. After each level speed of the game is increasing

        • A high score is always recorded after each game, so when you play next time you can still see your high score

      • Future Features to Implement:

        • Implement a button to show the instruction for the game

        • Implement a button to mute the sound of the game

        • Implement a button for the high score board for the top five high scores

        • Implement a functionality for pause/unpause the game

        • Implement a button to quit the game

        • Implement the functionality for alien ships to fire after few levels

        • Add life up after some levels

  • Surface

    • Imagery

      • To add some design to the game and make it more personal I have added a background image to game that also reflects the game's purpose right from the start

    • Sounds

      • Added sound effects to give feedback to players, and to provide an entertaining experience

• Technologies Used

  • Languages:

    • Pyhton3 – used to develop the game

  • Frameworks, Libraries & Programs:

    • Pygame - used to create the game

    • GitHub - used to create and host the repository

  • Additional tools:

    • VS Code - IDE

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• Deployment

  • Local Clone

    In order to run this project locally you should have installed these 3 requirements on your machine:

    1. VS Code - IDE or your personal preference

    2. Pyhton3 - to run the application on your local machine

    3. PIP for installation of tools needed in this project.

    Optional: you can install Git.

    Steps to follow

    1. At the top of the repository click on Code and click on download zip and extract the zip file to your chosen folder or keep the same name.

    Optional: if you have Git install on your machine you can type

    git clone https://github.com/constantinadrian/alien_invasion
    

    or to clone the repository into a different name on the folder you can run

    git clone https://github.com/constantinadrian/alien_invasion folder_name
    

    more info about cloning with git here.

    2. Install pygame library

    Windows installation

    py -m pip install -U pygame --user
    

    Mac installation

    python3 -m pip install -U pygame --user
    

    Debian/Ubuntu/Mint

    sudo apt-get install python3-pygame
    

    Fedora/Red hat

    sudo yum install python3-pygame
    

    OpenSUSE

    sudo zypper install python3-pygame
    

    Arch/Manjaro

    sudo pamac install python-pygame
    

    more info about pygame installation here.

    3. Navigate to the folder where project is

    4. To run the project run

    python alien_invasion.py
    

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• Credit

  • Code

    • Addapted and modified from PYTHON CRASH COURSE by ERIC MATTHES

    • Python Docs

    • Pygame Docs

  • Media

    • Game Background Image

    • Spaceship

    • Alien Spaceship

    • Sounds Effect

• Disclaimer

  • This project is for educational purposes only.