The Pong Club is a Pong Game in which you can play against an AI.

The main.py file contains every parameter to play the game:

• action defines what the game will do once launched. It can be set to three parameters:
  • TRAINING the game will train the AI
  • PLAYING you will play the game alone
  • AGAINST_BEST you will play against an AI

To launch the game, simply launch the Main.py python file:

python3 Main.py

Once launched, the game will simply train the AI and output the state.

The the AI section below for more informations.

This option's main purpose is to debug the game.

For now, the game only supports one player. The NUMBER_OF_AI parameter in the main file can be set from 0 to 2. 0 means you will play as the two players. If it is set to 1, you will play against one not trained AI. If set to 2, two not trained AI will play against each other.

The play_against parameter in the main file defines the generation against which you wish to play. The AI must be trained to that generation and the Population object must be serialized in the populations folder. The name of the file must be as follow:

populations/NUM_OF_GEN.pop

The game will select the best player of that generation and then you will play against that player. It may take some time to select the best player. The progression will be printed.

• Python 3
• PyTorch
• PyGame
• Numpy

The AI uses an hybrid of genetic algorithm and Neural Network. First, the neural network is randomly set. Then, a certain amount of AI Players (set by the parameter POPULATION_SIZE in the train.py file) will play against each other in randoms 1vs1 matches. Each player plays against one adversary randomly chosen. The winner is kept identical for the next generation (to prevent a generation to be worst than the previous one) while the looser is replaced by a mutated version of the winner. Once each player has played his match, the next generation replaced the old one.

To determine the action of each ai player, a neural network is used. It takes 6 inputs in this order:

• the player's vertical position
• the enemy's vertical position
• the ball's horizontal position
• the ball's vertical position
• the ball's horizontal velocity
• the ball's vertical velocity

and has 2 outputs determining whether the player must go up or down.

This game has been made by

• Lorenzo Sonnino

And is under license. Please, see the LICENSE file for more informations.