Pie Time

 I'm in pie land!!

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Thinking that I should get with it, and finally look at Evariste Galois and - eventually -

Lie groups. The underlying problem being the difficulty of solving higher order equations,

and working with groups and transformations instead. Very important for physics...

But then, Bard really impressed me this morning:

                                                                   

                                                                          

Asked for the expansion of (x + 1)^5. Then asked for the root of the long equation.

No problem!!

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Just updated Feed Aspen to make it more challenging (Pygame10). The speed of the oncoming bowl

increases every time the player scores. As well, one can play again from the Game Over

screen.

                                                                    

It's a playable game...

import pygame
import random

# Pygame Setup Stuff
pygame.init()
WINDOW_WIDTH = 800
WINDOW_HEIGHT = 500
screen = pygame.display.set_mode((WINDOW_WIDTH, WINDOW_HEIGHT))
pygame.display.set_caption('Codemy.com - Feed Aspen')
clock = pygame.time.Clock()
running = True
# Create Variables to keep track of score and lives
score = 0
lives = 5
speed = 5
playsound = True

dt = 0
player_pos = pygame.Vector2(screen.get_width() / 2, screen.get_height() / 2)

# Define the fonts
title_font = pygame.font.SysFont('impact', 40)
score_font = pygame.font.SysFont('impact', 25)
lives_font = pygame.font.SysFont('impact', 25)
game_over_font = pygame.font.SysFont('impact', 75)
restart_game_font = pygame.font.SysFont('impact', 40)

# Render the text (as surface) Text, boolean for antialiasing, text color, bg color
title_text = title_font.render("Feed Aspen!", True, "#3d5f9f", "silver")
score_text = score_font.render(f"Score: {score}", True, "#3d5f9f", "silver")
lives_text = lives_font.render(f"Lives: {lives}", True, "#3d5f9f", "silver")
game_over_text = game_over_font.render("Game Over!", True, "#3d5f9f", "silver")
restart_game_text = restart_game_font.render("Press 'p' to Play Again...", True, "#3d5f9f", "silver")

# Get Text Rect
title_text_rect = title_text.get_rect()
score_text_rect = score_text.get_rect()
lives_text_rect = lives_text.get_rect()
game_over_text_rect = game_over_text.get_rect()
restart_game_text_rect = restart_game_text.get_rect()

# Position the text
title_text_rect.center = (WINDOW_WIDTH / 2, 30)
score_text_rect.topleft = (10, 5)
lives_text_rect.topleft = ((WINDOW_WIDTH - lives_text.get_width() - 10), 5)
game_over_text_rect.center = (WINDOW_WIDTH / 2, WINDOW_HEIGHT / 2)
restart_game_text_rect.center = (WINDOW_WIDTH / 2, WINDOW_HEIGHT / 2 + 90)
# load our images
aspen = pygame.image.load('images/aspen.png')
food = pygame.image.load('images/food.png')

# get rect surrounding our images
aspen_rect = aspen.get_rect()
food_rect = food.get_rect()

# Position our images
aspen_rect.center = (60, WINDOW_HEIGHT / 2)
food_rect.x = WINDOW_WIDTH + 100
food_rect.y = random.randint(65, (WINDOW_HEIGHT - food.get_height()))

while running:
    # poll for events
    # pygame.QUIT event means that the user clicked the X to close the window
    for event in pygame.event.get():
        if event.type == pygame.QUIT:
            running = False

    # Pick the screen color
    screen.fill("silver")

    # Blit text onto screen
    screen.blit(title_text, title_text_rect)
    screen.blit(score_text, score_text_rect)
    screen.blit(lives_text, lives_text_rect)

    # Check if we're out of lives
    if lives == 0:
        # Game over text
        screen.blit(game_over_text, game_over_text_rect)
        screen.blit(restart_game_text, restart_game_text_rect)
        # Stop The Food From Moving again
        food_rect.x = 0
        food_rect.y = 10000

        # Check for p
        keys = pygame.key.get_pressed()
        if keys[pygame.K_p]:
            # Update game start variables
            score = 0
            lives = 6
            speed = 5

    # Blit images onto screen
    screen.blit(aspen, aspen_rect)
    screen.blit(food, food_rect)

    # Blit score unto screen
    score_text = score_font.render(f"Score: {score}", True, "#3d5f9f", "silver")
    lives_text = lives_font.render(f"Lives: {lives}", True, "#3d5f9f", "silver")

    # Draw Line at top of the screen
    pygame.draw.line(screen, "#3d5f9f", (0, 60), (WINDOW_WIDTH, 60), 2)

    # Move Our Images
    keys = pygame.key.get_pressed()

    # Move Aspen
    if keys[pygame.K_UP] and aspen_rect.y > 70:
        aspen_rect.y -= 300 * dt
    if keys[pygame.K_DOWN] and aspen_rect.y < WINDOW_HEIGHT - aspen.get_height() - 5:
        aspen_rect.y += 300 * dt

    # Move Food
    if food_rect.x < 0:
        # Aspen Missed the Food!
        # Lose a life
        lives -= 1
        # Update Lives On Screen
        lives_text = lives_font.render(f"Lives: {lives}", True, "#3d5f9f", "silver")
        food_rect.x = WINDOW_WIDTH + 100
        food_rect.y = random.randint(65, (WINDOW_HEIGHT - food.get_height()))
    else:
        # Move The food to the left
        food_rect.x -= speed

    # Check for collisions
    if aspen_rect.colliderect(food_rect):
        # Increase the score
        score += 1
        speed += 2
        # Update Score Text
        score_text = score_font.render(f"Score: {score}", True, "#3d5f9f", "silver")
        food_rect.x = WINDOW_WIDTH + 100
        food_rect.y = random.randint(65, (WINDOW_HEIGHT - food.get_height()))

    # flip the display to output our work to the screen
    pygame.display.flip()

    # Set the clock stuff / delta time in seconds since the last frame
    # used for framerate independent physics
    dt = clock.tick(60) / 1000

pygame.quit()