Google Research Football

This repository contains an RL environment based on open-source game Gameplay Football.
It was created by the Google Brain team for research purposes.

Useful links:

(NEW!) GRF Game Server - challenge other researchers!
Google Research Football Paper
GoogleAI blog post
Google Research Football on Cloud
Mailing List - please use it for communication with us (comments / suggestions / feature ideas)

For non-public matters that you'd like to discuss directly with the GRF team, please use google-research-football@google.com.

We'd like to thank Bastiaan Konings Schuiling, who authored and open-sourced the original version of this game.

Quick Start

Install required apt packages with:

sudo apt-get install git cmake build-essential libgl1-mesa-dev libsdl2-dev 
libsdl2-image-dev libsdl2-ttf-dev libsdl2-gfx-dev libboost-all-dev 
libdirectfb-dev libst-dev mesa-utils xvfb x11vnc libsdl-sge-dev python3-pip

Then install the game from GitHub master:

git clone https://github.com/google-research/football.git
cd football
pip3 install .

This command can run for a couple of minutes, as it compiles the C++ environment in the background. Now, it's time to play!

python3 -m gfootball.play_game --action_set=full

Training agents to play GRF

Run training

In order to run TF training, install additional dependencies:

TensorFlow: pip3 install "tensorflow<2.0" orpip3 install "tensorflow-gpu<2.0", depending on whether you want CPU or GPU version;
Sonnet: pip3 install dm-sonnet;
OpenAI Baselines:pip3 install git+https://github.com/openai/baselines.git@master.

Then:

To run example PPO experiment on academy_empty_goal scenario, runpython3 -m gfootball.examples.run_ppo2 --level=academy_empty_goal_close
To run on academy_pass_and_shoot_with_keeper scenario, runpython3 -m gfootball.examples.run_ppo2 --level=academy_pass_and_shoot_with_keeper

In order to train with nice replays being saved, runpython3 -m gfootball.examples.run_ppo2 --dump_full_episodes=True --render=True

In order to reproduce PPO results from the paper, please refer to:

gfootball/examples/repro_checkpoint_easy.sh
gfootball/examples/repro_scoring_easy.sh

Playing the game

Please note that playing the game is implemented through an environment, so human-controlled players use the same interface as the agents. One important implication is that there is a single action per 100 ms reported to the environment, which might cause a lag effect when playing.

Keyboard mappings

The game defines following keyboard mapping (for the keyboard player type):

ARROW UP - run to the top.
ARROW DOWN - run to the bottom.
ARROW LEFT - run to the left.
ARROW RIGHT - run to the right.
S - short pass in the attack mode, pressure in the defense mode.
A - high pass in the attack mode, sliding in the defense mode.
D - shot in the the attack mode, team pressure in the defense mode.
W - long pass in the the attack mode, goalkeeper pressure in the defense mode.
Q - switch the active player in the defense mode.
C - dribble in the attack mode.
E - sprint.

Play vs built-in AI

Run python3 -m gfootball.play_game --action_set=full. By default, it starts the base scenario and the left player is controlled by the keyboard. Different types of players are supported (gamepad, external bots, agents...). For possible options run python3 -m gfootball.play_game -helpfull.

Play vs pre-trained agent

In particular, one can play against agent trained with run_ppo2 script with the following command (notice no action_set flag, as PPO agent uses default action set):python3 -m gfootball.play_game --players "keyboard:left_players=1;ppo2_cnn:right_players=1,checkpoint=$YOUR_PATH"

Trained checkpoints

We provide trained PPO checkpoints for the following scenarios:

In order to see the checkpoints playing, runpython3 -m gfootball.play_game --players "ppo2_cnn:left_players=1,policy=gfootball_impala_cnn,checkpoint=$CHECKPOINT" --level=$LEVEL, where $CHECKPOINT is the path to downloaded checkpoint.

In order to train against a checkpoint, you can pass 'extra_players' argument to create_environment function. For example extra_players='ppo2_cnn:right_players=1,policy=gfootball_impala_cnn,checkpoint=$CHECKPOINT'.