SpaceGarbageAvoider

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  game capture

Inspiration

As the number of human spaceflight increases rapidly, the amount of space garbage accumulated in space also increases exponentially. SpaceGarbageAvoider is a game that raises awareness to this issue.

What it does

SpaceGarbageAvoider is a game that involves you, the pilot of a spaceship, controlling your spaceship to avoid space garbage floating in space. You use the AWSD keys to move the spaceship up and down to avoid space garbage moving with a certain velocity. The longer you survive without hitting any space garbage the higher score you get in the end.

How we built it

We built this game using the existing Python game engine called Pyxel. We created a meteor class to represent space garbage. We used the Pyxel Editor provided by Pyxel to design all the pixel models used in this game.

Challenges we ran into

It is our first time building a game, so game development concepts like game loop, UserUpdate, render are new to us. We also learned that building a game is not only coding but also music and art. Lastly, completing a game in such a short time period is also a challenge for us.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

We completed a space invader, flappy bird level game in less than 24 hours.

What we learned

We learned how the game integrates music, art and coding as a whole. We learned how to use a ready-made game engine. We learned how to make pixel art. We are getting more familiar with python programming.

What's next for SpaceGarbageAvoider

We are planning to polish our game better in both art and code. Also, we are planning to make the spacecraft engine more realistic. Furthermore, we want to try to inverse the role of player and game designer, more specifically, we want players to try to place the space garbage, and the spacecraft can automatically avoid the garbage. We also would like to implement an AI that uses machine learning to learn this game and improve into a game player of this game.

Built With

• datetime
• math
• python
• pyxel