Video Games

from distutils.core import setup

setup(name="Pygame Framework",
      version="0.1",
      description="Classes to facilitate the creation of pygame projects",
      author="Frank DeMarco",
      author_email="frank.s.demarco@gmail.com",
      url="http://usethematrixze.us",
      packages=["pgfw"],
      classifiers=["Development Status :: 2 - Pre-Alpha",
                  "Environment :: Plugins",
                  "Intended Audience :: Developers",
                  "License :: Public Domain",
                  "Programming Language :: Python :: 2.7"])

from time import sleep
from random import randint

from pgfw.Game import Game

# inheriting from Game allows you to customize your project
class SampleGame(Game):

    square_width = 30

    # update runs every frame, you can think of it as the mainloop
    def update(self):
        sleep(1)
        screen = self.get_screen()
        bounds = screen.get_size()
        screen.fill((0, 0, 0))
        screen.fill((255, 255, 255),
                    (randint(0, bounds[0]), randint(0, bounds[1]),
                     self.square_width, self.square_width))


if __name__ == '__main__':
    # the play method begins the project's animation
    SampleGame().play()

from time import time as get_secs

from pygame import joystick as joy
from pygame.key import get_pressed
from pygame.locals import *

from GameChild import *

class Input(GameChild):

    def __init__(self, game):
        GameChild.__init__(self, game)
        self.last_mouse_down_left = None
        self.joystick = Joystick()
        self.delegate = self.get_delegate()
        self.load_configuration()
        self.set_any_press_ignore_list()
        self.unsuppress()
        self.subscribe_to_events()
        self.build_key_map()
        self.build_joy_button_map()

    def load_configuration(self):
        self.release_suffix = self.get_configuration("input", "release-suffix")
        self.key_commands = self.get_configuration().items("keys")
        self.double_click_time_limit = self.get_configuration(
            "mouse", "double-click-time-limit")

    def set_any_press_ignore_list(self):
        self.any_press_ignored = set(["capture-screen", "toggle-fullscreen",
                                      "reset-game", "record-video", "quit",
                                      "mute", "toggle-interpolator"])
        self.any_press_ignored_keys = set()

    def unsuppress(self):
        self.suppressed = False

    def subscribe_to_events(self):
        self.subscribe(self.translate_key, KEYDOWN)
        self.subscribe(self.translate_key, KEYUP)
        self.subscribe(self.translate_joy_button, JOYBUTTONDOWN)
        self.subscribe(self.translate_joy_button, JOYBUTTONUP)
        self.subscribe(self.translate_axis_motion, JOYAXISMOTION)
        self.subscribe(self.translate_mouse_input, MOUSEBUTTONDOWN)
        self.subscribe(self.translate_mouse_input, MOUSEBUTTONUP)

    def build_key_map(self):
        key_map = {}
        for command, keys in self.key_commands:
            key_map[command] = []
            if type(keys) == str:
                keys = [keys]
            for key in keys:
                key_map[command].append(globals()[key])
        self.key_map = key_map

    def build_joy_button_map(self):
        self.joy_button_map = self.get_configuration("joy")

    def suppress(self):
        self.suppressed = True

    def translate_key(self, event):
        if not self.suppressed:
            cancel = event.type == KEYUP
            posted = None
            key = event.key
            for cmd, keys in self.key_map.iteritems():
                if key in keys:
                    self.post_command(cmd, cancel=cancel)
                    posted = cmd
            if (not posted or posted not in self.any_press_ignored) and \
                   key not in self.any_press_ignored_keys:
                self.post_any_command(key, cancel)

    def post_command(self, cmd, **attributes):
        self.delegate.post(cmd, **attributes)

    def post_any_command(self, id, cancel=False):
        self.post_command("any", id=id, cancel=cancel)

    def translate_joy_button(self, event):
        if not self.suppressed:
            cancel = event.type == JOYBUTTONUP
            posted = None
            for command, button in self.joy_button_map.iteritems():
                if int(button) == event.button:
                    self.post_command(command, cancel=cancel)
                    posted = command
            if not posted or posted not in self.any_press_ignored:
                self.post_any_command(event.button, cancel)

    def translate_axis_motion(self, event):
        if not self.suppressed:
            axis = event.axis
            value = event.value
            if not value:
                for command in "up", "right", "down", "left":
                    self.post_command(command, cancel=True)
                    if command not in self.any_press_ignored:
                        self.post_any_command(command, True)
            else:
                if axis == 1:
                    if value < 0:
                        command = "up"
                    elif value > 0:
                        command = "down"
                else:
                    if value > 0:
                        command = "right"
                    elif value < 0:
                        command = "left"
                self.post_command(command)
                if command not in self.any_press_ignored:
                    self.post_any_command(command)

    def is_command_active(self, command):
        if not self.suppressed:
            if self.is_key_pressed(command):
                return True
            joystick = self.joystick
            joy_map = self.joy_button_map
            if command in joy_map and joystick.get_button(joy_map[command]):
                return True
            if command == "up":
                return joystick.is_direction_pressed(Joystick.up)
            elif command == "right":
                return joystick.is_direction_pressed(Joystick.right)
            elif command == "down":
                return joystick.is_direction_pressed(Joystick.down)
            elif command == "left":
                return joystick.is_direction_pressed(Joystick.left)

    def is_key_pressed(self, command):
        poll = get_pressed()
        for key in self.key_map[command]:
            if poll[key]:
                return True

    def translate_mouse_input(self, event):
        button = event.button
        pos = event.pos
        post = self.post_command
        if event.type == MOUSEBUTTONDOWN:
            if button == 1:
                last = self.last_mouse_down_left
                if last:
                    limit = self.double_click_time_limit
                    if get_secs() - last < limit:
                        post("mouse-double-click-left", pos=pos)
                last = get_secs()
                self.last_mouse_down_left = last

    def get_axes(self):
        axes = {}
        for direction in "up", "right", "down", "left":
            axes[direction] = self.is_command_active(direction)
        return axes

    def register_any_press_ignore(self, *args, **attributes):
        self.any_press_ignored.update(args)
        self.any_press_ignored_keys.update(self.extract_keys(attributes))

    def extract_keys(self, attributes):
        keys = []
        if "keys" in attributes:
            keys = attributes["keys"]
            if type(keys) == int:
                keys = [keys]
        return keys

    def unregister_any_press_ignore(self, *args, **attributes):
        self.any_press_ignored.difference_update(args)
        self.any_press_ignored_keys.difference_update(
            self.extract_keys(attributes))


class Joystick:

    (up, right, down, left) = range(4)

    def __init__(self):
        js = None
        if joy.get_count() > 0:
            js = joy.Joystick(0)
            js.init()
        self.js = js

    def is_direction_pressed(self, direction):
        js = self.js
        if not js or direction > 4:
            return False
        if direction == 0:
            return js.get_axis(1) < 0
        elif direction == 1:
            return js.get_axis(0) > 0
        elif direction == 2:
            return js.get_axis(1) > 0
        elif direction == 3:
            return js.get_axis(0) < 0

    def get_button(self, id):
	if self.js:
	    return self.js.get_button(id)

3.239.129.52

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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