Training an AI to play Flappy Bird using NEAT

A project to recreate the classic game Flappy Bird in Python using Pygame. Further, creation of an AI to play this game using NEAT.

Installation and running

This has been tested with Python 3.10.6, but should work for Python 3.7+. Alternative pip installation commands are given below.

1. Download this repo.
2. Create a new virtual environment: python -m venv venv
3. Activate this virtual environment: venv\Scripts\activate (if Windows OS)
4. Install required packages: pip install -r requirements.txt
5. Run the program using: python NEAT_FlappyBird.py

Please note that to successfully run this project, the assets folder (with all contents) and config-feedforward.txt file must be downloaded and must be placed in the same location as the .py file.

Alternative pip installation commands (use if the installation using the requirements.txt file fails):

pip install neat-python pygame-ce

References

The Pygame Development Team. Pygame Community Edition. Nov. 2023. url: https://pyga.me/docs/

Alan McIntyre et al. neat-python. Mar. 2022. url: https://neat-python.readthedocs.io/en/latest/