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DemonAttack
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This environment is part of the Atari environments. Please read that page first for general information.
| Action Space | Discrete(6) |
| Observation Shape | (210, 160, 3) |
| Observation High | 255 |
| Observation Low | 0 |
| Import | gymnasium.make("ALE/DemonAttack-v5") |
For more DemonAttack variants with different observation and action spaces, see the variants section.
Description
You are facing waves of demons in the ice planet of Krybor. Points are accumulated by destroying demons. You begin with 3 reserve bunkers, and can increase its number (up to 6) by avoiding enemy attacks. Each attack wave you survive without any hits, grants you a new bunker. Every time an enemy hits you, a bunker is destroyed. When the last bunker falls, the next enemy hit will destroy you and the game ends.
For a more detailed documentation, see the AtariAge page
Actions
DemonAttack has the action space Discrete(6) with the table below lists the meaning of each action's meanings.
As DemonAttack uses a reduced set of actions for v0, v4 and v5 versions of the environment.
To enable all 18 possible actions that can be performed on an Atari 2600, specify full_action_space=True during
initialization or by passing full_action_space=True to gymnasium.make.
| Value | Meaning | Value | Meaning | Value | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
0 |
NOOP |
1 |
FIRE |
2 |
RIGHT |
3 |
LEFT |
4 |
RIGHTFIRE |
5 |
LEFTFIRE |
Observations
Atari environment have two possible observation types, the observation space is listed below. See variants section for the type of observation used by each environment id.
obs_type="rgb" -> observation_space=Box(0, 255, (210, 160, 3), np.uint8)obs_type="ram" -> observation_space=Box(0, 255, (128,), np.uint8)
Additionally, obs_type="grayscale" cause the environment return a grayscale version of the rgb array for observations with the observation space being Box(0, 255, (210, 160), np.uint8)
Rewards
Each enemy you slay gives you points. The amount of points depends on the type of demon and which wave you are in. A detailed table of scores is provided on the AtariAge page.
Variants
DemonAttack has the following variants of the environment id which have the following differences in observation, the number of frame-skips and the repeat action probability.
| Env-id | obs_type= | frameskip= | repeat_action_probability= |
|---|---|---|---|
| DemonAttack-v0 | "rgb" |
(2, 5) |
0.25 |
| DemonAttack-ram-v0 | "ram" |
(2, 5) |
0.25 |
| DemonAttack-ramDeterministic-v0 | "ram" |
4 |
0.25 |
| DemonAttack-ramNoFrameskip-v0 | "ram" |
1 |
0.25 |
| DemonAttackDeterministic-v0 | "rgb" |
4 |
0.25 |
| DemonAttackNoFrameskip-v0 | "rgb" |
1 |
0.25 |
| DemonAttack-v4 | "rgb" |
(2, 5) |
0.0 |
| DemonAttack-ram-v4 | "ram" |
(2, 5) |
0.0 |
| DemonAttack-ramDeterministic-v4 | "ram" |
4 |
0.0 |
| DemonAttack-ramNoFrameskip-v4 | "ram" |
1 |
0.0 |
| DemonAttackDeterministic-v4 | "rgb" |
4 |
0.0 |
| DemonAttackNoFrameskip-v4 | "rgb" |
1 |
0.0 |
| ALE/DemonAttack-v5 | "rgb" |
4 |
0.25 |
| ALE/DemonAttack-ram-v5 | "ram" |
4 |
0.25 |
Difficulty and modes
It is possible to specify various flavors of the environment via the keyword arguments difficulty and mode.
A flavor is a combination of a game mode and a difficulty setting. The table below lists the possible difficulty and mode values
along with the default values.
| Available Modes | Default Mode | Available Difficulties | Default Difficulty |
|---|---|---|---|
[1, 3, 5, 7] |
1 |
[0, 1] |
0 |
Version History
A thorough discussion of the intricate differences between the versions and configurations can be found in the general article on Atari environments.
- v5: Stickiness was added back and stochastic frameskipping was removed. The environments are now in the "ALE" namespace.
- v4: Stickiness of actions was removed
- v0: Initial versions release