Introduction

Orbiter is a simple control game created by Lee Vaughan using Kepler’s laws of planetary motion. The design of the game, along with its source code, was originally published in Lee’s excellent book, Impractical Python Projects. I highly recommend Lee’s book as well as many of the other wonderful books offered by No Starch Press.

This repository stands as a refactored version of Mr. Vaughan’s source code. It was created with two aims: one, to make it simple to extend the game, and, more importantly, two, to make the game into an environment for reinforcement learning algorithms in the style of OpenAI’s gyms.