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)

Agent Environment Cycle

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Basketball Pong

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.

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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)

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)