Hands-On Reinforcement Learning for Games

Installing OpenAI Gym

To help to encourage research and development in RL, the OpenAI group provides an open source platform for RL training called Gym. Gym, provided by OpenAI, comes with plenty of sample test environments that we can venture through while we work through this book. Also, other RL developers have developed other environments using the same standard interface Gym uses. Hence, by learning to use Gym, we will also be able to explore other cutting-edge RL environments later in this book.

The installation for Gym is quite simple, but, at the same time, we want to avoid any small mistakes that may cause you frustration later. Therefore, it is best to use the following instructions to set up and install an RL environment for development. ...