Video Games

from os import listdir
from os.path import join

from pygame.mixer import Channel, Sound, music, find_channel

from GameChild import *
from Input import *

class Audio(GameChild):

    current_channel = None
    paused = False
    muted = False

    def __init__(self, game):
        GameChild.__init__(self, game)
        self.delegate = self.get_delegate()
        self.load_fx()
        self.subscribe(self.respond)

    def load_fx(self):
        fx = {}
        if self.get_configuration().has_option("audio", "sfx-path"):
            root = self.get_resource("audio", "sfx-path")
            if root:
                for name in listdir(root):
                    fx[name.split(".")[0]] = Sound(join(root, name))
        self.fx = fx

    def respond(self, event):
        if self.delegate.compare(event, "mute"):
            self.mute()

    def mute(self):
        self.muted = True
        self.set_volume()

    def unmute(self):
        self.muted = False
        self.set_volume()

    def set_volume(self):
        volume = int(not self.muted)
        music.set_volume(volume)
        if self.current_channel:
            self.current_channel.set_volume(volume)

    def play_bgm(self, path, stream=False):
        self.stop_current_channel()
        if stream:
            music.load(path)
            music.play(-1)
        else:
            self.current_channel = Sound(path).play(-1)
        self.set_volume()

    def stop_current_channel(self):
        music.stop()
        if self.current_channel:
            self.current_channel.stop()
        self.current_channel = None
        self.paused = False

    def play_fx(self, name, panning=.5):
        if not self.muted:
            channel = find_channel(True)
            if panning != .5:
                offset = 1 - abs(panning - .5) * 2
                if panning < .5:
                    channel.set_volume(1, offset)
                else:
                    channel.set_volume(offset, 1)
            channel.play(self.fx[name])

    def pause(self):
        channel = self.current_channel
        paused = self.paused
        if paused:
            music.unpause()
            if channel:
                channel.unpause()
        else:
            music.pause()
            if channel:
                channel.pause()
        self.paused = not paused

    def is_bgm_playing(self):
        current = self.current_channel
        if current and current.get_sound():
            return True
        return music.get_busy()

from lib.pgfw.pgfw.Configuration import TypeDeclarations

class Types(TypeDeclarations):

    additional_defaults = {

        "gaia": {"path": "path",

                 "int": "offset"},

        "introduction": {"int": ["segments", "transition"]},

        "epithet": {"int": ["width", "margin", "font-size", "it-size",
                            "outline-flash"],

                    "float": "scramble",

                    "int-list": ["color", "i-color", "t-color"]},

        "spanky": {"path": "path",

                   "int-list": ["jump-order", "jump-framerate", "wag-order",
                                "wag-framerate", "walk-order",
                                "walk-framerate"]},

        "title": {"path": "background"},

        "home": {"path": ["static-environment-path", "audio"],

                 "int": ["food-inactive-x", "food-inactive-y", "food-active-y",
                         "food-margin", "tv-edge"],

                 "float": "food-step"},

        "collection": {"int-list": ["coordinates", "size"]},

        "view": {"int": ["hue-shift", "alpha-step"],

                 "path": "path",

                 "int-list": "coordinates"},

        "level": {"int": ["stall", "fall-pause", "entrance-offset"],

                  "path": "audio",

                  "int-list": "background-color",

                  "float": ["gravity", "entrance-speed"],

                  "float-list": "velocity"},

        "door": {"int": "x",

                 "path": "path"},

        "exit-arrow": {"int": ["width", "height", "overlap", "arrow-count",
                               "frame-count", "interval", "saturation",
                               "offset", "fade-in", "fade-out", "alpha"],

                       "int-list": "hue"},

        "land": {"int": ["horizon", "gradient", "x-step", "height"],

                 "float": ["spacing-factor", "velocity-ratio",
                           "altitude-ratio", "fade-speed"]},

        "planet": {"path": "path",

                   "int": ["interval", "shifts", "offset"]},

        "moon": {"path": "path",

                 "int": "margin",

                 "float": "tint-level",

                 "int-list": ["count", "interval"]},

        "stars": {"int-list": ["count", "size", "saturation"]},

        "gun": {"path": "path",

                "int": "framerate"},

        "drop": {"float": "spawn-decrease",

                 "int": ["consecutive", "speed", "first-spawn", "blob-length"]},

        "food": {"path": ["path", "mouth-bg-path", "upper-jaw-path",
                          "lower-jaw-path"],

                 "int": ["offset", "crouch", "mouth-bg-alpha", "mouth-gap",
                         "blink-rate", "freeze-length"],

                 "int-list": ["angle-range", "mouth-offset", "mouth-size",
                              "mouth-bg-shrink", "drop-velocity"],

                 "float": ["dx", "dx-boost"]},

        "platform": {"int": ["height", "first-gap", "buffer", "thickness"],

                     "int-list": ["gap", "width"]},

        "obstacle": {"int": "blink-rate"},

        "missile": {"int": ["margin", "delay", "angle"],

                    "int-list": "count",

                    "float": ["chance", "peak", "speed"]},

        "hurdle": {"int-list": ["count", "first-range", "margin"],

                   "int": ["delay", "pause"],

                   "float": ["chance", "speed"]},

        "spikes": {"int": "delay",

                   "float": ["speed", "chance"]},

        "fireball": {"int": ["delay", "peak"],

                     "int-list": "count",

                     "float": ["chance", "speed"]},

        "window": {"path": "path",

                   "int": ["alpha", "remain-length", "margin"],

                   "float": "fade-step"},

        "siphon": {"int-list": "root-colors"},
        
        }

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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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