IIT Goa Hack the Game: Google-Atari-breakout-hack

Update:

We won the Hackathon IIT Goa's Cepheus: HackTheGame 🎉🥳

⭐Introduction

Automating game using openCV in python

Original Game:

Atari Breakout is a hidden Google game which turns Google Images into a playable classic arcade video game with a Google twist. The aim of the game is to bat the ball at the colored blocks until there are none left, while making sure the ball does not pass your paddle.

Game link: https://elgoog.im/breakout

Automated Game using OpenCV:

The original Game operates through user by mouse or keyboard keys. But in the automated Version, the game requires no such operations from user. Game is played automatically by object detection and template matching.

Team Details

Team Name: thisDot

1. Madhav jha (f4a88c53)
2. Anjali kushwaha (EEBAE845)

⭐Getting Started

Requirements:

1. Python Installed in PC/laptop
2. Internet connection
3. Browser to play game in

Process

1. Starting the game:https://elgoog.im/breakout/ 🔌
2. Resize the window as following:
3. Splitting the screen into two halfs(as shown in picture)🖥️
4. Running the code.

⭐Understanding the code

Libraries used in the code:

1. openCV for object detection and template matching The game contains a ball(object which has to be detected) which moves accordingly after hitting the slider in specific path. For automating the game The ball image is read through the method cv2.imgread and detected through cv2.matchTemplate

2. numpy

3. matplotlib.pyplot as plt

4. pyautogui for keyboard functionality

5. ImageGrab for capturing screen.

Functions Used

1. def showImg -for displaying Image
2. def readImg - for reading Image
3. def grab_screen_img - for capturing screen

⭐Working of the game hack

1. We take ScreenShot of the region where game is being played
2. We keep track of the ball current location via newX and newY variables and previous location via preX and preY
3. To trace the ball we draw a circle at it's center and a rectangle around it
4. Using values after many games we change the position of the platform with regards to the ball current position + acceleration in X and Y positions + etc.

NOTE: To break from the while loop press q

Here's Our HighScore, think you can beat it ?? 🤔

⭐Important Links

Github repo: https://github.com/jhamadhav/atari-breakout-hack
Demo video: link
Youtube link for HighScore video: https://youtu.be/NGpsUYme_vk
Drive link for HighScore video: https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=1abjxEn0O53cpht0BiNOV0o6mRnGguA5s

Thank you !!! 🎉🥳