alien_invasion

This is a basic Python game project using pygame, based on Project 1 from Python Crash Course, Second Edition by Eric Matthes.

A journal of the development process (JOURNAL.md) is available, intended to satisfy requirements for a college course this project was created for.

Getting Started

Prerequisites

• Python 3 (pre-installed)
• pygame (via pip)

Installation

1. If downloaded as a .zip, unzip the project files
2. To install the required packages, just run the following command in the main project folder:

pip install -r requirements.txt

3. To start the game, just run python alien_invasion.py in the console. Hit Q to exit the game.