A simplistic arcade-like shooter game powered by Qiskit, Azure, and IONQ computers.
Try to defeat incoming invaders by selecting the correct weapon (left and right arrow keys) and firing (space). You may encounter some unexpected behavior with your weapon (quantum noise). But do not fear, once you beat enough enemies you will be awarded upgrades that fix your weapon (quantum error correction!)
Your weapons include: hadafire, x-bringer, z-bringer which correspond to quantum gates!
- Ensure you have
python3andpip3installed - Download this repo and enter directory
pip install -r requirements.txt./main.py
If you want to learn about how it works, as well as the error correction, look here
IQuHack made a virtual hackathon fun! Everything was very organized and enabled people to meet and talk to other people. In the case of our group, we all meet through slack and gather.town -- and we all were undergraduate or graduate students working on quantum computing.
On the flip side, we did not enjoy the challenges -- sure, making a game is a fun creative process that would work for all scopes of experience and has a lot of oppurtunity to establish a platform for outreach. But given that we have been studying/working in the field, what we expected walking into this was something along the lines of "perform quantum error correction, or maximizing quantum capability through pulse-level control of trapped ions." Despite that, we made the most out of that and included quantum error correction as part of our game.
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├── entities
│ ├── bullet.py
│ ├── dashboard.py
│ ├── enemy.py
│ ├── __init__.py
│ ├── player.py
│├── levels
│ ├── __init__.py
│ ├── level0.py
│ ├── level_controller.py
│ └── level.py
├── main.py
├── media
│ └── demo.gif
├── README.md
└── requirements.txt
[1]R. Chao and B. W. Reichardt, “Fault-tolerant quantum computation with few qubits,” npj Quantum Inf, vol. 4, no. 1, p. 42, Dec. 2018.
[2]M. Urbanek, B. Nachman, and W. A. de Jong, “Quantum error detection improves accuracy of chemical calculations on a quantum computer,” arXiv:1910.00129 [physics, physics:quant-ph], Sep. 2019.