An application of NEAT in flappy bird

FlappyBird played by NEAT. Every bird has its own ANN and a fitness score that is measured by distance/time passed. For each generation top 50% of population is preserved and possibly mutated while the rest is discarded. Mutations can change ANN of each bird in various ways.

Install

Windows: If you haven't already, you need to add javac to path like here

git clone https://github.com/dulex123/jj-farm
cd jj-farm
javac game/FlappyBird.java

Run

When running on Ubuntu there will be a little bit of tearing.

# Windows
java game.FlappyBird

# For much smoother experience on *nix run with opengl 
java -Dsun.java2d.opengl=true game.FlappyBird

Notes

• It is not guaranteed that birds will evolve to play the game successfuly
• If you are interested in NEAT take a look at these books:
  • "Handbook of Neuroevolution Through Erlang" - Gene I. Sher
  • "Ai Techniques For Game Programming" - Mat Buckland

Credits

Released under the MIT License.
Authored and maintained by Dušan Josipović & Nikola Jovičić.

Blog dulex123.github.io  ·  GitHub @dulex123  ·  Twitter @josipovicd

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