Stopping a PyRat Game

As you may have noticed, closing the game window (clicking the cross, or pressing the Esc key) does not stop the game. This is because the game runs in a separate process, allowing the game to continue even if the window is closed.

Default Behavior

By default, the game will continue running until: one of the following conditions is met:

• It reaches an end condition.

• An error occurs in one of the players’ codes.

However, if you want to let the game run even in the event of a player error, you can set the continue_on_error parameter to True when creating the game instance. This is particularly useful when running matches with multiple players, as it does not penalize other players.

Stopping the Game

If you want to abort the game at any time, the best way is to click in the terminal in which the game is running and press Ctrl+C. However, if you are running games in a loop, PyRat may just abort the current game and continue with the next one. To ensure that the game stops completely, you can hold Ctrl+C for a few seconds.

In VSCode, you can also stop the game by clicking the red square at the top of the editor window.