Video Games

from pygame import Color, Surface, draw, PixelArray

from xenographic_wall.pgfw.GameChild import GameChild

class Ring(GameChild, Surface):

    transparent_color = Color("magenta")

    def __init__(self, parent, index):
        GameChild.__init__(self, parent)
        self.index = index
        self.init_surface()
        self.draw_circle()

    def init_surface(self):
        config = self.get_configuration("scope")
        ring_count = config["ring-count"]
        width = config["diameter"] / ring_count * (ring_count - self.index)
        Surface.__init__(self, (width, width))
        color = self.transparent_color
        self.fill(color)
        self.set_colorkey(color)
        rect = self.get_rect()
        rect.center = self.parent.center
        self.rect = rect

    def draw_circle(self):
        radius = self.get_width() / 2
        draw.circle(self, self.get_neutral_color(), (radius, radius), radius)

    def get_neutral_color(self):
        return Color(self.get_configuration("scope", "neutral-color"))

    def set_color(self, color):
        pixels = PixelArray(self)
        center = self.get_rect().center
        current = pixels[center[0]][center[1]]
        pixels.replace(current, color)
        del pixels

    def get_alpha(self):
        return self.alpha

    def set_alpha(self, alpha):
        self.alpha = alpha
        Surface.set_alpha(self, int(alpha))

    def update(self):
        self.draw()

    def draw(self):
        self.parent.parent.parent.blit(self, self.rect)

from xenographic_wall.pgfw.GameChild import GameChild
from xenographic_wall.creatures.Creature import Creature

class Creatures(GameChild, list):

    def __init__(self, parent):
        GameChild.__init__(self, parent)

    def reset(self):
        list.__init__(self, [])
        self.populate()
        for creature in self:
            creature.reset()

    def populate(self):
        self.append(Creature(self, 3, 1))
        self.append(Creature(self, 3, 2))
        self.append(Creature(self, 3, 3))
        self.append(Creature(self, 3, 4))
        self.append(Creature(self, 3, 5))
        self.append(Creature(self, 3, 6))

    def update(self):
        for creature in self:
            creature.update()

from re import search
from os import listdir
from os.path import join, basename
from glob import glob
from time import time
from random import randrange
from math import atan, sin, cos, sqrt, copysign

from pygame import Surface, image, Color

from xenographic_wall.pgfw.GameChild import GameChild

class Creature(GameChild, Surface):

    transparent_color = Color("magenta")
    
    def __init__(self, parent, genus_id, species_id):
        GameChild.__init__(self, parent)
        self.genus_id = genus_id
        self.species_id = species_id
        self.current_frame_index = 0
        self.last_advance = 0
        self.load_frames()
        self.read_stats()
        self.init_surface()
        self.reset()

    def load_frames(self):
        frames = []
        root = self.build_species_dir()
        for path in sorted(glob(join(root, "*.png"))):
            frames.append(Frame(self, path))
        self.frames = frames
        self.rect = frames[0].get_rect()

    def build_species_dir(self):
        root = self.get_resource("creature", "root")
        genus_dir = glob(join(root, "{0}*".format(self.genus_id)))[0]
        return glob(join(genus_dir, "{0}*".format(self.species_id)))[0]

    def read_stats(self):
        path = join(self.build_species_dir(),
                    self.get_configuration("creature", "stat-file"))
        duration, food, speed = file(path).read().split()
        self.eat_duration = int(duration)
        self.food = int(food)
        self.speed = float(speed)

    def init_surface(self):
        Surface.__init__(self, self.frames[0].get_size())
        self.set_colorkey(self.transparent_color)

    def reset(self):
        self.place()
        self.finish_eating()
        self.update_nearest_mushroom()

    def finish_eating(self):
        self.eat_start_time = None

    def update_nearest_mushroom(self):
        mushrooms = self.get_mushrooms()
        food = self.food
        available = mushrooms[food]
        nearest = None
        for mushroom in available:
            if not mushroom.eaten:
                distance = self.get_distance_to_mushroom(mushroom)
                if not nearest or distance < nearest_distance:
                    nearest = mushroom
                    nearest_distance = distance
        if not nearest:
            nearest = mushrooms.add_mushroom(food)
        self.nearest_mushroom = nearest
        self.set_path()

    def get_mushrooms(self):
        return self.parent.parent.mushrooms

    def get_distance_to_mushroom(self, mushroom):
        start = self.rect.center
        end = mushroom.rect.center
        return sqrt((end[0] - start[0]) ** 2 + (end[1] - start[1]) ** 2)

    def set_path(self):
        speed = self.speed
        start = self.rect.center
        end = self.nearest_mushroom.rect.center
        x_distance = end[0] - start[0]
        y_distance = end[1] - start[1]
        if not x_distance and not y_distance:
            dx, dy = 0, 0
        elif not x_distance:
            dx, dy = 0, speed
        elif not y_distance:
            dx, dy = speed, 0
        else:
            angle = atan(float(x_distance) / y_distance)
            dx = sin(angle) * speed
            dy = cos(angle) * speed
        self.dx = abs(dx) * copysign(1, x_distance)
        self.dy = abs(dy) * copysign(1, y_distance)
        self.x_travelled = 0
        self.y_travelled = 0
        self.path_start = start

    def place(self):
        area = self.parent.parent.get_rect()
        self.rect.topleft = randrange(area.w), randrange(area.h)

    def update(self):
        self.clear()
        self.advance_frame()
        self.confirm_nearest_mushroom()
        self.eat_mushroom()
        self.continue_eating()
        self.move()
        self.draw()

    def clear(self):
        self.fill(self.transparent_color)

    def advance_frame(self):
        current_time = time()
        duration = (current_time - self.last_advance) * 100
        if duration > self.get_current_frame().duration:
            index = self.current_frame_index + 1
            if index >= len(self.frames):
                index = 0
            self.last_advance = current_time
            self.current_frame_index = index

    def get_current_frame(self):
        return self.frames[self.current_frame_index]

    def confirm_nearest_mushroom(self):
        if not self.is_eating() and self.nearest_mushroom.eaten:
            self.update_nearest_mushroom()

    def eat_mushroom(self):
        location = self.nearest_mushroom.rect
        if not self.is_eating() and self.rect.colliderect(location):
            self.eat_start_time = time()
            self.nearest_mushroom.eat()

    def is_eating(self):
        return self.eat_start_time is not None

    def continue_eating(self):
        if self.is_eating():
            duration = (time() - self.eat_start_time) * 1000
            nearest = self.nearest_mushroom
            limit = self.eat_duration
            if duration > limit:
                self.get_mushrooms().replace_mushroom(nearest)
                self.update_nearest_mushroom()
                self.finish_eating()
            elif duration >= limit / 2 and not nearest.bitten:
                nearest.bite()

    def move(self):
        if not self.is_eating():
            rect = self.rect
            destination = self.nearest_mushroom
            remaining = self.get_distance_to_mushroom(destination)
            if remaining < self.speed:
                rect.center = destination.center
            else:
                self.x_travelled += self.dx
                self.y_travelled += self.dy
                start = self.path_start
                rect.centerx = start[0] + self.x_travelled
                rect.centery = start[1] + self.y_travelled
            self.contain()

    def contain(self):
        rect = self.rect
        area = self.parent.parent.get_rect()
        if rect.bottom > area.bottom:
            rect.bottom = area.bottom
        elif rect.top < area.top:
            rect.top = area.top
        if rect.right > area.right:
            rect.right = area.right
        elif rect.left < area.left:
            rect.left = area.left

    def draw(self):
        self.blit(self.get_current_frame().image, (0, 0))
        self.parent.parent.blit(self, self.rect)


class Frame(GameChild):

    def __init__(self, parent, path):
        GameChild.__init__(self, parent)
        self.path = path
        self.set_image()
        self.set_duration()

    def set_image(self):
        self.image = image.load(self.path).convert_alpha()

    def set_duration(self):
        separator = self.get_configuration("creature", "field-separator")
        self.duration = int(search(separator + "(.*)\.",
                                   basename(self.path)).group(1))

    def get_rect(self):
        return self.image.get_rect()

    def get_size(self):
        return self.image.get_size()

216.73.216.172

March 3, 2021♦

Video 📺

Computers are a gun. They can see the target; they can pull the trigger. Computers were made by the military to blow people's brains out if they stepped out of line. Google Coral is the same technology that pollutes the oceans, and so is the computer I'm using, and so are the platforms I'm using to post this.

Game 🎲

Games are a context in which all play is purposeful. Games expose the fundamentally nihilistic nature of the universe and futility of pursuing any path other than the inevitability of death and the torture of an evil that knows and exploits absolute freedom. Games are not educational; they are education.

Propaganda 🆒

Education is propaganda — ego driven by-product conveying nothing that would enable us to expose that vanities made for gain subject us further to an illusion created by those in control: the illusion that quantity can represent substance and that data or observation can replace meaning. And why say it, or how, without contradicting yourself, that everything, once registered, no longer exists, and in fact never did, exists only in relation to other non-existent things, and when you look, it's not there, not only because it's long vanished, but because where would it be?

fig. 2: Gamer goo is a lubricant — not for your skin, but for facilitating your ability to own the competition (image from Gamer goo review)

As a result of video games, the great Trojan horse 🎠 of imperialist consumerist representationalism, people are divided in halves to encourage them to act according to market ordained impulses, to feign assurance, penetrating themselves deeper into a tyranny from which every action signals allegiance, confusing the world with definitions and borders, constantly struggling to balance or brace themselves against forces that threaten the crumbling stability of their ego.

or example, a cup 🥃 is designed and built to hold something, maintain order and prevent chaos. It keeps water from spilling back to where it belongs, back where it wants to go and gravity wants it to go. The cup is a trap, and it is used to assert dominance over nature, to fill with thoughts about existence, time and self, thoughts regarding dissimilarity between equal parts and patterns that manifest in variation. These ruminations disguised as revelations boil away to reveal isolated and self-aggrandizing thoughts about an analogy fabricated to herald the profundity of one's campaign's propaganda. You have no authentic impulse except to feed a delusion of ultimate and final supremacy. That is why you play games. That is your nature. That is why you eventually smash the cup to bits 💥 or otherwise watch it disintegrate forever because it, by being useful, threatens your facade of ownership and control.

fig. 3: worth1000

The cup is you; it reflects you; it is a lens through which you see yourself; it reassures you, confirming your presence; it says something, being something you can observe. When you move, it moves, and it opens after being closed. You can use it as a vessel for penetration fantasies, keeping you warm and fertile, a fine host for the plague of consciousness, you reptile, you sun scorched transgressor that not only bites the hand that feeds, but buries it deep within a sterile chamber where nothing remains for it as a means of escape except the corpses of others that infringed upon your feeding frenzy.

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