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Orbital project 2020

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:

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

Tech Stack

Gameplay and Graphics
- Pygame: Used for making the game and the animations
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: Visualising Data and Debugging
  - OpenCV 2: Image Preprocessing and video playback
Optimisation 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
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