Get Rid of the Virus

Overview

Get Rid of the Virus is a small Pygame survival game inspired by The Incredibles.

You play as Jack-Jack and try to survive as long as possible while avoiding viruses coming from different directions. The longer you survive, the faster they get.

Technical approach

The game focuses on:

• Player movement and controls
• Random virus spawning
• Collision detection
• Increasing difficulty
• Score tracking
• Background music and sound effects

The virus can appear from the top, bottom, left, or right. Its speed increases as the player’s score increases.

Requirements

• Python 3.x (https://www.python.org/downloads/)

• Pygame 2 (required)

  pip install pygame==2.0.0.dev2

How to run

1. Clone or download the repository.
2. Install the required Pygame version.
3. Run the game with: python3 getRidOfVirus.py

Lessons learned

This was a fun little project for getting into game development with Python and Pygame. I got to play around with things like movement, collision detection, random spawning of threats, and adjusting the difficulty as the score increases.

I also made the background music myself in GarageBand, which was probably the most fun part. It’s a simple game, but I had fun coding it and making the audio for it.