Space Invaders

An implementation of the classic 2D arcade game space invaders using pygame

Controls

Move player left and right via arrow keys, press or hold spacebar to fire lasers

Running The Game

Head to a bash shell and insert the following commands:

# clone the repository from github
git clone https://github.com/DrewAMSD/space_invaders.git

# move into the space_invaders main directory
cd space_invaders

# run the game by executing the main python file
python3 main.py

Note: In order to ensure the game runs, make sure python version 3.12+ and pygame are installed

# downloads for python vary by operating system(Windows, Mac, Linux)
# check python version
python3 --version

# check pip version
pip --version

# after downloading python you can install pygame with pip, the python package manager
pip install pygame