Bowling#

../../../_images/bowling.gif

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

Action Space

Discrete(18)

Observation Space

(210, 160, 3)

Observation High

255

Observation Low

0

Import

gym.make("ALE/Bowling-v5")

Description#

Your goal is to score as many points as possible in the game of Bowling. A game consists of 10 frames and you have two tries per frame. Knocking down all pins on the first try is called a “strike”. Knocking down all pins on the second roll is called a “spar”. Otherwise, the frame is called “open”. Detailed documentation can be found on the AtariAge page

Actions#

By default, all actions that can be performed on an Atari 2600 are available in this environment. However, if you use v0 or v4 or specify full_action_space=False during initialization, only a reduced number of actions (those that are meaningful in this game) are available. The reduced action space may depend on the flavor of the environment (the combination of mode and difficulty). The reduced action space for the default flavor looks like this:

Num

Action

0

NOOP

1

FIRE

2

UP

3

DOWN

4

UPFIRE

5

DOWNFIRE

Observations#

By default, the environment returns the RGB image that is displayed to human players as an observation. However, it is possible to observe

  • The 128 Bytes of RAM of the console

  • A grayscale image

instead. The respective observation spaces are

  • Box([0 ... 0], [255 ... 255], (128,), uint8)

  • Box([[0 ... 0] ... [0  ... 0]], [[255 ... 255] ... [255  ... 255]], (250, 160), uint8)

respectively. The general article on Atari environments outlines different ways to instantiate corresponding environments via gym.make.

Rewards#

You receive points for knocking down pins. The exact score depends on whether you manage a “strike”, “spare” or “open” frame. Moreover, the points you score for one frame may depend on following frames. You can score up to 300 points in one game (if you manage to do 12 strikes). For a more detailed documentation, see the AtariAge page.

Arguments#

env = gym.make("ALE/Bowling-v5")

The various ways to configure the environment are described in detail in the article on Atari environments. It is possible to specify various flavors of the environment via the keyword arguments difficulty and mode. A flavor is a combination of a game mode and a difficulty setting.

Environment

Valid Modes

Valid Difficulties

Default Mode

Bowling

[0, 2, 4]

[0, 1]

0

You may use the suffix “-ram” to switch to the RAM observation space. In v0 and v4, the suffixes “Deterministic” and “NoFrameskip” are available. These are no longer supported in v5. In order to obtain equivalent behavior, pass keyword arguments to gym.make as outlined in the general article on Atari environments. The versions v0 and v4 are not contained in the “ALE” namespace. I.e. they are instantiated via gym.make("Bowling-v0").

Version History#

A thorough discussion of the intricate differences between the versions and configurations can be found in the general article on Atari environments.

  • v5: Stickiness was added back and stochastic frameskipping was removed. The entire action space is used by default. The environments are now in the “ALE” namespace.

  • v4: Stickiness of actions was removed

  • v0: Initial versions release (1.0.0)