Video Games

from pygame import Rect

from _send.pgfw.GameChild import GameChild
from _send.field.sideline.background.Background import Background

class Sideline(GameChild, Rect):

    def __init__(self, parent, is_lower=False):
        GameChild.__init__(self, parent)
        self.is_lower = is_lower
        self.proportion = self.get_configuration("sideline", "proportion")
        self.init_rect()
        self.background = Background(self)

    def init_rect(self):
        display_surface = self.get_display_surface()
        width = display_surface.get_width()
        height = display_surface.get_height() * self.proportion
        Rect.__init__(self, (0, 0, width, height))
        if self.is_lower:
            self.bottom = display_surface.get_rect().bottom

    def refresh(self):
        self.background.refresh()

    def update(self):
        self.background.update()

from pygame import Surface

from _send.pgfw.GameChild import GameChild

class Filter(GameChild, Surface):

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

    def paint(self):
        pass

from pygame.transform import flip
from pygame import Surface

from _send.pgfw.Sprite import Sprite

class Cloth(Sprite):

    def __init__(self, parent):
        Sprite.__init__(self, parent)
        self.scroll_speed = self.get_configuration("cloth", "scroll-speed")

    def refresh(self):
        self.set_references()
        self.set_frames()

    def set_references(self):
        self.fields = self.parent.parent.parent
        self.tartans = self.get_game().tartans

    def set_frames(self):
        name = self.fields.get_current_field().name
        self.clear_frames()
        self.remove_locations()
        sideline = self.parent.parent
        tile = self.tartans[name]
        if tile.get_width() == 0:
            tile.generate(store=True)
        if sideline.is_lower:
            tile = flip(tile, False, True)
        frame_h = tile.get_height()
        while frame_h < sideline.h:
            frame_h += tile.get_height()
        frame = Surface((sideline.w, frame_h))
        for x in xrange(0, frame.get_width(), tile.get_width()):
            for y in xrange(0, frame.get_height(), tile.get_height()):
                frame.blit(tile, (x, y))
        self.add_frame(frame)
        if sideline.is_lower:
            self.location.bottomleft = sideline.bottomleft
            self.add_location(offset=(0, self.location.h))
        else:
            self.location.topleft = sideline.topleft
            self.add_location(offset=(0, -self.location.h))

    def update(self):
        sideline = self.parent.parent
        is_lower = sideline.is_lower
        self.move(dy=(self.scroll_speed, -self.scroll_speed)[is_lower])
        if is_lower and self.location.bottom < sideline.top:
            self.move(dy=self.location.h)
        elif not is_lower and self.location.top > sideline.bottom:
            self.move(dy=-self.location.h)
        ds = self.display_surface
        ds.set_clip(sideline)
        Sprite.update(self)
        ds.set_clip(None)

from _send.pgfw.GameChild import GameChild
from _send.field.sideline.background.Filter import Filter
from _send.field.sideline.background.Cloth import Cloth

class Background(GameChild):

    def __init__(self, parent):
        GameChild.__init__(self, parent)
        self.filter = Filter(self)
        self.cloth = Cloth(self)

    def refresh(self):
        self.cloth.refresh()

    def update(self):
        self.cloth.update()

from random import random

from pygame.mixer import Sound

from _send.pgfw.GameChild import GameChild

class Static(GameChild):

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

    def load_configuration(self):
        self.frequency = self.get_configuration("static", "frequency")
        self.sound = Sound(self.get_resource("static", "path"))
        self.sound.set_volume(self.get_configuration("static", "volume"))

    def update(self):
        if random() < self.frequency:
            self.play()

    def play(self):
        channel = self.sound.play()
        if channel:
            self.parent.set_random_panning(channel)

from random import random, choice

from pygame import Surface, Color
from pygame.font import Font
from pygame.mixer import Sound

from _send.pgfw.GameChild import GameChild
from _send.title.Static import Static
from _send.title.Track import Track
from _send.tartan.Tartan import Tartan, Stripe
from _send.Arrow import Arrow

class Title(GameChild):

    def __init__(self, parent):
        GameChild.__init__(self, parent)
        self.display_surface = self.get_display_surface()
        self.compare = self.get_delegate().compare
        self.fields = self.get_game().fields
        self.load_tracks()
        self.static = Static(self)
        self.set_backgrounds()
        self.set_current_background()
        self.deactivate()
        self.subscribe(self.respond)
        self.arrow = Arrow(self, (150, 39), (120, 280), 100, 12, 4, Arrow.RIGHT)
        self.arrow.location.center = self.display_surface.get_rect().center

    def load_tracks(self):
        get_resource = self.get_resource
        config = self.get_configuration("title")
        self.lead_track = Track(self, get_resource("title", "lead-audio"),
                                config["lead-volume"])
        self.beat_track = Track(self, get_resource("title", "beat-audio"),
                                config["beat-volume"])
        self.audio = Sound(get_resource("title", "audio"))

    def set_backgrounds(self):
        backgrounds = self.backgrounds = []
        for palette in self.get_configuration("title", "palette").split("/"):
            tartan = Tartan(self)
            tartan.sett = []
            tartan.palette = {}
            tartan.thread_size = 4
            tartan.sett_width = 0
            tartan.asymmetric = False
            for ii, entry in enumerate(palette.split(",")):
                color, ratio = entry.split()
                width = int(round(float(ratio) * 2))
                tartan.sett_width += width
                tartan.sett.append(Stripe(ii, width))
                tartan.palette[ii] = Color("#%sFF" % color)
            tartan.generate(1, True)
            ox, oy = self.get_configuration("title", "background-offset")
            backgrounds.append(Surface(self.display_surface.get_size()))
            for x in xrange(ox, backgrounds[-1].get_width(),
                            tartan.get_width()):
                for y in xrange(oy, backgrounds[-1].get_height(),
                                tartan.get_height()):
                    backgrounds[-1].blit(tartan, (x, y))

    def set_current_background(self):
        self.current_background = choice(self.backgrounds)

    def deactivate(self):
        self.audio.stop()
        self.active = False

    def respond(self, event):
        compare = self.compare
        if self.active and compare(event, "advance"):
            self.deactivate()
            self.fields.load()
        elif compare(event, "reset-game"):
            self.deactivate()
            self.set_current_background()
            self.activate()

    def activate(self):
        # self.lead_track.play()
        # self.beat_track.play()
        self.active = True
        self.audio.play(-1)

    def update(self):
        if self.active:
            self.lead_track.update()
            self.beat_track.update()
            # self.static.update()
            if random() < .35:
                self.set_current_background()
            self.display_surface.blit(self.current_background, (0, 0))
            self.arrow.update()

    def set_random_panning(self, channel):
        offset = (random() - .5) * 2
        if offset < 0:
            volume = 1, 1 + offset
        else:
            volume = 1 - offset, 1
        channel.set_volume(*volume)

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December 3, 2013♦

Where in the mind's prism does light shine, inward, outward, or backward, and where in a plane does it intersect, experientially and literally, while possessing itself in a dripping wet phantasm?

Fig 1.1 What happens after you turn on a video game and before it appears?

The taxonomy of fun contains the difference between gasps of desperation and exaltation, simultaneously identical and opposite; one inspires you to have sex, while the other to ejaculate perpetually. A destruction and its procession are effervescent, while free play is an inseminated shimmer hatching inside you. Unlikely to be resolved, however, in such a way, are the climaxes of transitions between isolated, consecutive game states.

You walk through a door or long-jump face first (your face, not Mario's) into a painting. A moment passes for eternity, viscerally fading from your ego, corpus, chakra, gaia, the basis of your soul. It happens when you kill too, and especially when you precisely maim or obliterate something. It's a reason to live, a replicating stasis.

Fig 1.2 Sequence in a video game

Video games are death reanimated. You recurse through the underworld toward an illusion. Everything in a decision and logic attaches permanently to your fingerprint. At the core, you use its energy to soar, comatose, back into the biosphere, possibly because the formal structure of a mind by human standards is useful in the next world.

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