PandaBot

A game bot that paves the way for the panda

The bot works using the pyautogui and win32con/api libraries

I don't really like pyautogui for its slow speed, but in this case it's not required. ...and this is one of my first projects, so I used that simple library

Video how PandaBot performs:

2023-04-15.16-28-12.online-video-cutter.com.1.mp4

Full video in my YouTube

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The game is built on the principle that you have to lengthen a stick so that it falls on the next column.

• For each successful fall +1 point, as well as for hitting exactly in the center +1 bonus point
• Did you understick or overstick? - game over.

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The idea

The bot works as follows:

• Screenshot of the game area

There is no need to make a screenshot of the entire game screen, just a line, 1 pixel height at the level of the red dash (center of the column)

• Determine the distance to the center of a column. (Iterate each pixel in the line, checking if its color values are the color of the center)

• Calculate how much time it would take to press the left button to hit exactly in the center of the column

As the stick grows at a constant velocity, we can assume that the distance to the column is exactly proportional to the time spent on the "growing" of the stick.

seconds = 0.0694 + (x - 77)/613

• Press a button, release and wait for the panda to pass the way and return to the starting position

...repeat

In fact, the bot can work for as long as you want!

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How to launch

Game

As I have written in my previous works, the bot is written for a particular environment on the computer, the specific location of the window, the screen resolution, etc.

To run this bot, you need:

• Install python 3.X (3.10 recommended) together with IDLE on your computer (you should run the code via IDLE!)
• Clone this project by this command somewhere on your computer:

Make sure you have downloaded git!

git clone https://github.com/KroSheChKa/PandaBot.git

• Open cmd in the created folder or press RButton in the folder and click "Git Bash Here" and paste that:

pip install -r requirements.txt

Particular case: If you have a monitor 3440x1440, then simply place the window with the game exactly half the screen on the left, set the window scale 125% and run it via Python IDLE

In other cases it is possible to run this code on your computer, but you will have to change some values depending on the resolution of your monitor, such as:

# You have to change 'left' and 'top' unless you have 3440x1440
pic = pyautogui.screenshot(region = (left, top, width, 1))

Help to deal with screenshot region

Сonvince that the width of the screenshot covers the whole game area!

# Also check whether the color of the center of the column matches this data
if r == 253 and g == 10 and b == 1:

REMEMBER that the cursor must always be on the game area for the bot to work.

# X and Y should be in the game area
win32api.SetCursorPos((x,y))

To start the bot press P. The same as to cause a pause. Press Q to end the bot completely.

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Any suggestions? You found a flaw?

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