Basketball Pong#

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This environment is part of the Atari environments. Please read that page first for general information.

Import

from pettingzoo.atari import basketball_pong_v3

Actions

Discrete

Parallel API

Yes

Manual Control

No

Agents

agents= ['first_0', 'second_0']

Agents

2

Action Shape

(1,)

Action Values

[0,5]

Observation Shape

(210, 160, 3)

Observation Values

(0,255)

A competitive game of control.

Try to get the ball in your opponents hoop. But you cannot move on their side of the court. Scoring a point also gives your opponent -1 reward.

Serves are timed: If the player does not serve within 2 seconds of receiving the ball, they receive -1 points, and the timer resets. This prevents one player from indefinitely stalling the game, but also means it is no longer a purely zero sum game.

Official Video Olympics manual

Environment parameters#

Some environment parameters are common to all Atari environments and are described in the base Atari documentation.

Parameters specific to Basketball_Pong are

basketball_pong_v3.env(num_players=2)

num_players: Number of players (must be either 2 or 4)

Action Space (Minimal)#

In any given turn, an agent can choose from one of 6 actions.

Action

Behavior

0

No operation

1

Fire

2

Move up

3

Move right

4

Move left

5

Move down

Version History#

  • v3: Minimal action space (1.18.0)

  • v2: No action timer (1.9.0)

  • v1: Breaking changes to entire API (1.4.0)

  • v0: Initial versions release (1.0.0)