The Atari Gym environment

In Chapter 4, Exploring the Gym and its Features, we looked at the various list of environments available in the Gym, including the Atari games category, and used a script to list all the Gym environments available on your computer. We also looked at the nomenclature of the environment names, especially for the Atari games. In this section, we will use the Atari environments and see how we can customize the environments with Gym environment wrappers. The following is a collage of 9 screenshots from 9 different Atari environments:

Customizing the Atari Gym environment

Sometimes, we may want to change the way the observations are sent back by the environment or change the scale of the rewards so that our agents can learn better or filter out some information before the agent receives them or change the way the environment is rendered on the screen. So far, we have been developing and customizing our agent to make it act well in the environment. Wouldn't it be nice to...