Video Games

from os import makedirs, walk, sep, remove
from os.path import join, dirname, basename, exists
from shutil import rmtree, copy, rmtree
from itertools import chain
from zipfile import ZipFile

import py2exe

from Setup import Setup

class SetupWin(Setup):

    def __init__(self):
        Setup.__init__(self)
        self.replace_isSystemDLL()

    def replace_isSystemDLL(self):
        origIsSystemDLL = py2exe.build_exe.isSystemDLL
        def isSystemDLL(pathname):
            if basename(pathname).lower() in ("libogg-0.dll", "sdl_ttf.dll"):
                return 0
            return origIsSystemDLL(pathname)
        py2exe.build_exe.isSystemDLL = isSystemDLL

    def setup(self):
        config = self.config.get_section("setup")
	windows = [{}]
	if config["init-script"]:
	    windows[0]["script"] = config["init-script"]
	if config["windows-icon-path"]:
	    windows[0]["icon-resources"] = [(1, config["windows-icon-path"])]
        Setup.setup(self, windows,
                    {"py2exe": {"packages": self.build_package_list(),
                                "dist_dir": config["windows-dist-path"]}})
        rmtree("build")
        self.copy_data_files()
        self.create_archive()

    def copy_data_files(self):
	root = self.config.get("setup", "windows-dist-path")
        for path in chain(*zip(*self.build_data_map())[1]):
            dest = join(root, dirname(path))
            if not exists(dest):
                makedirs(dest)
            copy(path, dest)
	self.include_readme(root)

    def include_readme(self, root):
	name = "README"
	if exists(name):
	    readme = open(name, "r")
	    reformatted = open(join(root, name + ".txt"), "w")
	    for line in open(name, "r"):
	    	reformatted.write(line.rstrip() + "\r\n")

    def create_archive(self):
        config = self.config.get_section("setup")
        title = self.translate_title() + "-" + config["version"] + "-win"
        archive_name = title + ".zip"
        archive = ZipFile(archive_name, "w")
        destination = config["windows-dist-path"]
        for root, dirs, names in walk(destination):
            for name in names:
                path = join(root, name)
                archive.write(path, path.replace(destination, title + sep))
        archive.close()
        copy(archive_name, "dist")
        remove(archive_name)
        rmtree(destination)

from random import randint
from math import sin, log, pi
from array import array

from pygame.mixer import Sound, get_init

class Samples(Sound):

    def __init__(self):
        self.set_amplitude()
        Sound.__init__(self, self.build())

    def set_amplitude(self):
        self.amplitude = (1 << (self.get_sample_width() * 8 - 1)) - 1

    def get_sample_width(self):
        return abs(get_init()[1] / 8)

    def build(self):
        pass

    def get_empty_array(self, length):
        return array(self.get_array_typecode(), [0] * length)

    def get_array_typecode(self):
        return [None, "b", "h"][self.get_sample_width()]


class Note(Samples):

    base_frequency = 440.0
    base_octave = 4
    base_name = "A"
    names = ["C", "C#", "D", "D#", "E", "F", "F#", "G", "G#", "A", "A#", "B"]
    SQUARE, TRIANGLE, SAW, SINE, DIRTY = range(5)

    def __init__(self, name=None, octave=4, frequency=None, shape=SQUARE,
                 volume=1.0):
        names = self.names
        self.shape = shape
        if frequency is None:
            self.name = name
            self.octave = octave
            self.set_frequency()
        elif name is None:
            self.frequency = float(frequency)
            self.set_name_and_octave()
        Samples.__init__(self)
        self.set_volume(volume)

    def set_frequency(self):
        name, octave = self.name, self.octave
        names = self.names
        octave_length = len(names)
        offset = (octave - self.base_octave) * octave_length + \
                 names.index(name) - names.index(self.base_name)
        self.frequency = self.base_frequency * 2 ** \
                         (offset / float(octave_length))

    def set_name_and_octave(self):
        names = self.names
        octave_length = len(names)
        offset = int(round(log(self.frequency / self.base_frequency, 2) * \
                           octave_length)) + names.index(self.base_name)
        self.octave = self.base_octave + offset / octave_length
        self.name = names[offset % octave_length]

    def __repr__(self):
        return "%s%i %.2f" % (self.name, self.octave, self.frequency)

    def build(self):
        period = int(round(get_init()[0] / self.frequency))
        samples = self.get_empty_array(period)
        shape = self.shape
        if shape == self.TRIANGLE:
            self.store_triangle_wave(samples, period)
        elif shape == self.SAW:
            self.store_saw_wave(samples, period)
        elif shape == self.SINE:
            self.store_sine_wave(samples, period)
        elif shape == self.DIRTY:
            self.store_dirty_wave(samples)
        else:
            self.store_square_wave(samples, period)
        return samples

    def store_triangle_wave(self, samples, period):
        amplitude = self.amplitude
        coefficient = 4 * amplitude / float(period - 1)
        for time in xrange(int(round(period / 2.0))):
            y = int((coefficient * time) - amplitude)
            samples[time] = y
            samples[-time - 1] = y

    def store_saw_wave(self, samples, period):
        amplitude = self.amplitude
        for time in xrange(period):
            samples[time] = int(2 * amplitude / float(period - 1) * time - \
                              amplitude)

    def store_sine_wave(self, samples, period):
        amplitude = self.amplitude
        for time in xrange(period):
            samples[time] = int(round(sin(time / (period / pi / 2)) * \
                                      amplitude))

    def store_dirty_wave(self, samples):
        amplitude = self.amplitude
        for time in xrange(len(samples)):
            samples[time] = randint(-amplitude, amplitude)

    def store_square_wave(self, samples, period):
        amplitude = self.amplitude
        for time in xrange(period):
            if time < period / 2:
                samples[time] = amplitude
            else:
                samples[time] = -amplitude

    def play(self, maxtime=0, fadeout=None, panning=None, fade_in=0):
        channel = Samples.play(self, -1, maxtime, fade_in)
        if fadeout:
            self.fadeout(fadeout)
        if channel and panning:
            channel.set_volume(*panning)
        return channel

import pygame
from pygame.locals import *

from GameChild import GameChild
from Mainloop import Mainloop
from Audio import Audio
from Display import Display
from Configuration import Configuration
from Delegate import Delegate
from Input import Input
from ScreenGrabber import ScreenGrabber
from Profile import Profile
from VideoRecorder import VideoRecorder
from Interpolator import Interpolator
from TimeFilter import TimeFilter

class Game(GameChild):

    resource_path = None

    def __init__(self, config_rel_path=None, type_declarations=None):
        self.profile = Profile(self)
        GameChild.__init__(self)
        self.print_debug(pygame.version.ver)
        self.config_rel_path = config_rel_path
        self.type_declarations = type_declarations
        self.set_configuration()
        pygame.init()
        self.set_children()
        self.subscribe(self.end, QUIT)
        self.subscribe(self.end)
        self.delegate.enable()

    def set_configuration(self):
        self.configuration = Configuration(self.config_rel_path,
                                           self.resource_path,
                                           self.type_declarations)

    def set_children(self):
        self.time_filter = TimeFilter(self)
        self.delegate = Delegate(self)
        self.display = Display(self)
        self.mainloop = Mainloop(self)
        self.input = Input(self)
        self.audio = Audio(self)
        self.screen_grabber = ScreenGrabber(self)
        self.video_recorder = VideoRecorder(self)
        self.interpolator = Interpolator(self)

    def frame(self):
        self.time_filter.update()
        self.delegate.dispatch()
        if not self.interpolator.is_gui_active():
            self.update()
        else:
            self.interpolator.gui.update()
        if self.video_recorder.requested:
            self.video_recorder.update()

    def run(self):
        self.mainloop.run()

    def update(self):
        pass

    def blit(self, source, destination, area=None, special_flags=0):
        self.get_screen().blit(source, destination, area, special_flags)

    def get_rect(self):
        return self.get_screen().get_rect()

    def end(self, evt):
        if evt.type == QUIT or self.delegate.compare(evt, "quit"):
            self.mainloop.stop()
            self.profile.end()

216.73.216.110

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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