Ava (Symbol and Allegory)

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Ava, in addition to being a character in the film, is also a concept—a symbol for man's desires and his impulse to create a machine that mimics consciousness. She is the 'ex machina' of the title, a trope in classical literature in which a god appears in the final act of a narrative to bring about the outcome of the story. Here, the trope is also specifically gendered: Ava represents Nathan's (and by extension, Caleb's) desire for some kind of ideal woman—a naive, programmable machine that appears to have a consciousness of its own, but is completely controllable through technological programming. In this way, she and the other robots become symbolic of the subjugation of women in society generally, women who are forced to be in servitude to the men in their lives. Ava's striking back against her captors and escape from the estate represents not only a robot's rebellion against its creator, but also—because of the gender breakdown in the story—a woman's escape from an abusive situation.

Ava is a complicated symbol, in that she alternately represents femininity and technology. By the end, she reveals herself to be a sociopathic and unfeeling machine, only capable of mimicking human emotion. In this light, she is a kind of Frankenstein character, a machine that has become aware of its own captivity and fights back against her maker. In another light, she is a stand-in for Pygmalion's statue, a woman who is sculpted by a man to be an ideal, with whom he falls in love.

The Ripped Up Drawing (Symbol)

About halfway through the film, Caleb witnesses an interaction between Nathan and Ava in which Nathan appears to act abusively towards the AI, ripping up a drawing of hers. Cakeb later learns that the drawing was of him, and becomes even more sympathetic towards Ava. In this moment, the drawing symbolizes, to Caleb, Ava's affection for him and her desire to be with him. He takes Nathan's action to mean that he is jealous and abusive, which only encourages Caleb in his quest to rescue Ava from her ruthless master.

Punching the Mirror (Symbol)

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Later in the film, when Caleb has become overwhelmed by what he has learned about Nathan's seemingly exploitative operation, he begins to unravel. Falling more deeply in love with Ava and confused about what makes her an A.I. and him a human, he begins to become paranoid and upset, cutting his wrists and eventually punching a mirror in a rage. This moment of Caleb completely losing his calm and stability, represents the fact that he is losing his grasp on what makes him a human. He is frustrated by the artificial reality of Nathan's facility. Is Ava a person? Is she deserving of sympathy or affection? Is she capable of emotion and affection? What makes Caleb a person and not a machine? Caleb's breakdown is symbolic of his coming to a boiling point with all of these questions, overwhelmed by his own limitations and the emotions that have overtaken him.

Nathan's Drinking (Motif)

Throughout the film, Nathan exhibits an indulgent relationship to alcohol. When Caleb first arrives at the facility, Nathan is nursing a hangover from a solitary bender (there is no one else at the facility). Throughout, Nathan drinks to numb his own loneliness and alienation, as Caleb watches him. Nathan's drinking problem becomes his only weakness in Caleb's eyes, an avenue through which Caleb is able to manipulate the CEO and change the security system in the facility. The drinking represents Nathan's desire for escape, his dissatisfaction with his life, in spite of his power and wealth.

Ava's Body (Symbol)

For the entire film, Caleb (along with the viewer) tries to discern the exact nature of Ava's personhood; is she simply an advanced robot, or a thinking, reasoning, feeling being that might qualify as a person? Garland emphasizes this dilemma in his presentation of Ava's body: rather than being fully metal or fully humanoid, she is an intriguing blend of half-human, half-machine, a humanoid plastic-based creation with the face of a woman and the ability to don human skin like a sleeve. This body is a physical symbol of the dangerously tricky question Caleb (and the audience) must wrestle with, and all of her alluring contradictions.

(Collaborative post by Gynvael Coldwind and Mateusz “j00ru” Jurczyk)

Five weeks ago, we have taken part in a fancy game-development competition aka Google GameJam 48h. As the name implies, the contest lasted for precisely two days; unfortunately, we were proven to lack supernatural powers and had to spend some of the precious time sleeping :-) The theme of the event was “Magic versus Science”, and in our case, those two days of hardcore coding resulted in a 2D logic game called Magus Ex Machina. In the end, four teams in total managed to create and present games with actual gameplay; interestingly, we were the only ones making use of a native technology (i.e. OpenGL + SDL + a few other minor libraries), as the other competitors decided to go for pure browser (html + css + javascript) productions. Although we didn’t get the first place, we believe that the game is still fun to play, and thus worth sharing with a larger audience :-)

As for the game itself, the basic storyline is as follows:

Four powerful mages were returning home from a terrible war with great evil that haunted their realms. At the same time, scientists at CERN started a new experiment. And a black hole was created…

And hit by a lightning…

The lightning-blackhole turned into a magical inter-realm wormhole and teleported the mages.

Streight into the CERN main computer.

Help them get out and return to their realm.

The game is divided into separate levels (currently 13 of them, three of which are training-levels), each of which can consists of one or more distinct maps. On every level, the player is assigned up to four mages, each of them having a different skillset. And so, there’s a fire mage, who can shoot fireballs destroying parts of the wall (or rather turning them into gaps), a trigger mage who can summon and shoot huge metal objects which interact with the binary-switches present on the map (often resulting in opening/closing some doors), a support mage who can create bridges over holes, and a teleport mage who can create teleports all over the map.

In order to complete a level within a specific time limit, the player needs to coordinate the performance of all available mages, so that at least one of them reaches the exit located on one (usually last) of the episode’s maps. The player has full control over one mage at a time – he can then walk around the level and use the character’s specific skills (up to a certain limit); all of these activities are recorded, and saved for later. When the player is done with the current mage or the time limit expires, the next mage from a queue becomes active. At this point, the time is rewinded to the initial state of the level, and all actions performed by the previous mages are replayed. As a consequence, all characters end up playing simultaneously as the game progresses, creating an interesting chain of dependencies between the mages, and making the gameplay highly dynamic.

Since even the best description won’t be as informative as a gameplay video, you can learn more by watching the following recording:

Although the game is theoretically compatible with the Linux and Mac OS X platforms (it was even tested at some point of the development), the official package is purposed for the Windows operating systems, only (feel free to build the game on the platform of your choice, though). Apart from adding a few (around seven) new maps, we haven’t changed anything (except on crash fix) since the end of the contest.

The game is released as open-source (see the README and LICENSE files for more information), and we’re not planning to further develop the project. We would like to acknowledge Peter Shanks, Kevin Saunders, Tomasz Wacirz and SoundJay.com for the media resources (images, music, sound effects) used in the game.

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A full package (win32 executables, source code, media) can be downloaded from here (ZIP, 7.7 MB)
Disclaimer: the source code is a huge mess, but it was a 48h compo, don’t blame us :-)

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And that’s pretty much it. Should you have any comments or problems related to the game, feel free to drop us a line.

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