Asteroids

A fun little pygame program to help improve my python skills. Why not Asteroids?!

Features

Pygame Objects

• Clock (pygame.time.Clock): Controls frame rate and game timing
• Sprite Groups (pygame.sprite.Group): Manages game objects
  • Updatable sprites
  • Drawable sprites
  • Asteroid sprites
  • Shot sprites
• List: List for array operations

Game Architecture

• Class Inheritance: Base CircleShape class extended by:
  • Player
  • Shot
  • Asteroid
  • Alien
• Event System: Handles player input and game events
• Collision Detection: Manages object interactions
• Score System:
  • AWS DynamoDB
  • Local display of current and high scores during gameplay
  • Scores stored by unique hostname/username

Game Controls

Key	Action
↑ (Up Arrow)	Thrust Forward
↓ (Down Arrow)	Thrust Backward
← (Left Arrow)	Rotate Left
→ (Right Arrow)	Rotate Right
Space	Fire
P	Pause Game

Prerequisite

1. pygame:

   • python3 -m pip install -U pygame==2.6.0

2. AWS SDK (boto3):

   • Included in requirements.txt
   • AWS credentials required for high score feature

3. venv virtual environments:

   • python -m venv C:\path\to\new\virtual\environment

Running the Project

git clone https://github.com/code-qtzl/asteroids.git
cd asteroids
source venv/bin/activate
python main.py

✨ Gameplay

Gameplay

Highscore

The History of Asteroids

Not my video, but found it to be a fun watch on the history of Asteroids.

Contact

Feel free to reach out to collab or if you have and questions!