davidjamesbutton/pyalien

pyAlien is a game that imitates Space Invaders, built using Python and Pygame

pyAlien

pyAlien is a simple game that imitates Space Invaders.

It was built using Python and PyGame.

It attempts to re-build PyGame's alien example game from scratch using their assets.

The PyGame license states that their library is "distributed under GNU LGPL version 2.1" and "programs in the examples subdirectory are in the public domain."

Getting Started

Installing dependencies

1. Install Python 3
2. Install pip 3 (usually comes with Python)
3. Execute pip3 install -r requirements.txt

Running the game

Execute python3 pyAlien.py

Keys

Standard Set

• LEFT - Move left
• RIGHT - Move right
• SPACE - Shoot

Cheat Set

• CTRL + SPACE - Kill all enemies
• CTRL + BACKQUOTE - Double FPS rate