This project was developed following Eric Mathees' Python Crash Course, Second Edition. Its a the classic game, Alien Invasion, developed in Python using Pygame.

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I introduced some of my own features that I believe improved the game experience:

• included a high scores button
  • displays the top 10 scores achieved by a player
  • after each game, the score of the game is saved
  • we extract a list from a json file
  • we introduce the new score into the list, and sort the list
  • we then take the first 10 elements
  • we store this new list into the json
• included instructions button
  • explains the basic functioning of the game
• added a title screen in the menu
• added a "level up screen"
• additional functionality for quickly testing new features
  • "god-mode" increases the speed of the ship and bullets
  • "x-mode" increases the fall speed of the ship

• improve documentation
• add an options button to handle difficulty of the game, speed of ship, etc ...
• introduce power ups

The main menu:

The instructions pane:

The high-score pane:

The level up screen:

Game play: