Coding the arcade classic Space Invaders

Space Invaders is probably the most famous space shooter of all time, released way back in 1978 for arcades. Originally called Uchu Shinryaku-sha in Japan, Space Invaders was the first fixed shooter, and paved the way for shooting games as a new genre. The idea being that the player controlled a space ship at the bottom of the screen, and it was their job to move left and right to avoid enemies, while shooting rockets up the screen to destroy them. Nice and simple fun, so let’s have a go at creating our own take on this retro classic.

We’ll be using Python to code our game, since it’s