ASCII Flappy Bird 🐦

A terminal-based ascii flappy bird game with AI.

Installation

🔴 Note: This game will work only on a Windows system because of some Windows-specific libraries used.

1. Download the project using Git or otherwise.
2. Run birdgame.cpp using a compiler that supports C++14.

Usage

• On startup screen, choose an option by pressing 1 or 2 or 3.
• When in single player mode, press spacebar to jump.
• In AI mode you can only watch the AI play:

How it works

• At any time, there are at most 2 pipes on screen.
• The bird only moves vertically while the pipes move horizontally to the left.
• pipe[0] always denotes the index of the pipe closest to the bird. Once this pipe is behind the bird, it is removed from screen and a new one is created.

Inspirations

• https://github.com/hamikm/AsciiBird
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yASrfF1C3ms

Future work

• Add flapping wings to bird.
• Add different difficulty modes (vary gap between pipes, speed of bird, ...)