Video Games

EVR.include("level/scoreboard/meter/Segment.js");
EVR.Level.Scoreboard.Meter = function(scoreboard)
{
   EVR.Graphic.call(this, scoreboard, null, null, ALIGN_CENTER);
   this.scoreboard = scoreboard;
   this.segments = [];
   this.count = SCOREBOARD_METER_SEGMENTS;
   this.bounds = [SCOREBOARD_METER_MIN_SPEED, SCOREBOARD_METER_MAX_SPEED];
//    this.set_proportions(SCOREBOARD_METER_WIDTH, 1);
   this.set_proportions(1, 1);
   this.append();
   this.addSegments();
}
EVR.Level.Scoreboard.Meter.prototype = new EVR.Graphic;
EVR.Level.Scoreboard.Meter.prototype.addSegments = function()
{
   var count = this.count;
   var segments = [];
   for (var ii = 0; ii < count; ii++)
   {
      segments.push(new EVR.Level.Scoreboard.Meter.Segment(this, ii, count));
   }
   this.segments = segments;
   this.arrange();
}
EVR.Level.Scoreboard.Meter.prototype.arrange = function()
{
   var segments = this.segments;
   var offset = 0;
   for (var ii = 1; ii < segments.length; ii++)
   {
      offset += segments[ii - 1].get_dimensions()[1];
      segments[ii].set_coordinates([0, offset]);
   }
}
EVR.Level.Scoreboard.Meter.prototype.update = function(speed)
{
   var min = this.bounds[0];
   var max = this.bounds[1];
   var difference = max - min;
   var level = Math.round(this.count * ((speed - min) / difference));
   var segment, segments = this.segments;
   var offset = 0;
   for (var ii = segments.length - 1; ii >= 0; ii--)
   {
      segment = segments[ii];
      if (offset < level)
      {
	 if (!segment.isActive())
	 {
	    segment.activate();
	 }
      }
      else
      {
	 if (segment.isActive())
	 {
	    segment.deactivate();
	 }
      }
      offset++;
   }
   return level / this.count;
}
EVR.Level.Scoreboard.Meter.prototype.draw = function()
{
   EVR.Graphic.prototype.draw.call(this);
   var segments = this.segments;
   for (var ii = 0; ii < segments.length; ii++)
   {
      segments[ii].draw();
   }
   this.arrange();
}      
EVR.Level.Scoreboard.Meter.prototype.toString = function()
{
   return "[object EVR.Level.Scoreboard.Meter]";
}

EVR.Level.Scoreboard.Meter.Segment = function(meter, index, count)
{
   EVR.Graphic.call(this, meter);
   this.meter = meter;
   this.index = index;
   this.count = count;
   this.active = false;
   this.setAttributes();
   this.append();
}
EVR.Level.Scoreboard.Meter.Segment.prototype = new EVR.Graphic;
EVR.Level.Scoreboard.Meter.Segment.prototype.setAttributes = function()
{
   var height = 1.0 / this.count;
   var y = this.index * height;
   this.set_proportions(1, height);
   this.deactivate();
   this.set_color();
}
EVR.Level.Scoreboard.Meter.Segment.prototype.deactivate = function()
{
   this.css.visibility = "hidden";
//    this.css.display = "none";
//    this.set_opacity(SCOREBOARD_METER_INACTIVE_OPACITY);
   this.active = false;
}
EVR.Level.Scoreboard.Meter.Segment.prototype.set_color = function()
{
   var color = this.meter.scoreboard.buildYellow(this.index, this.count);
   this.setBorder();
   EVR.Graphic.prototype.set_color.call(this, color.get_string());
}
EVR.Level.Scoreboard.Meter.Segment.prototype.setBorder = function(red)
{
   var offset = SCOREBOARD_METER_BORDER_COLOR_OFFSET;
   var color = this.meter.scoreboard.buildYellow(
      this.index, this.count, offset);
   var css = this.css;
   css.borderWidth = 0;
   css.borderLeftWidth = SCOREBOARD_METER_HORIZONTAL_BORDER_WIDTH;
   css.borderRightWidth = SCOREBOARD_METER_HORIZONTAL_BORDER_WIDTH;
   if (this.index == this.count - 1)
   {
      css.borderBottomWidth = SCOREBOARD_METER_BOTTOM_BORDER_WIDTH;
   }
   css.borderColor = color.get_string();
   css.borderStyle = "solid";
}
EVR.Level.Scoreboard.Meter.Segment.prototype.activate = function()
{
   this.css.visibility = "";
//    this.css.display = "";
//    this.set_opacity(1);
   this.active = true;
}
EVR.Level.Scoreboard.Meter.Segment.prototype.isActive = function()
{
   return this.active;
}
EVR.Level.Scoreboard.Meter.Segment.prototype.toString = function()
{
   return "[object EVR.Level.Scoreboard.Meter.Segment]";

}

EVR.include("level/streak/Glyph.js");
EVR.Level.Streak = function(level)
{
   this.level = level;
   this.container = level.container;
   this.glyphs = [];
   this.streak = 0;
}
EVR.Level.Streak.prototype.increase = function()
{
   var streak = ++this.streak;
//    if (!this.level.practice)
//    {
//       var probability = STREAK_CHEER_PROBABILITY;
//       if (Math.random() <= probability)
//       {
// 	 this.glyphs.push(new EVR.Level.Streak.Glyph(this));
//       }
//    }
}
EVR.Level.Streak.prototype.reset = function()
{
   this.streak = 0;
   this.apply_to_glyphs("remove");
   this.glyphs = [];
}
EVR.Level.Streak.prototype.apply_to_glyphs = function(method)
{
   var glyphs = this.glyphs;
   for (var ii = 0; ii < glyphs.length; ii++)
   {
      glyphs[ii][method]();
   }
}
EVR.Level.Streak.prototype.draw = function()
{
   this.apply_to_glyphs("draw");
}
EVR.Level.Streak.prototype.clear = function()
{
   this.apply_to_glyphs("remove");
}
EVR.Level.Streak.prototype.valueOf = function()
{
   return this.streak;
}
EVR.Level.Streak.prototype.toString = function()
{
   return this.streak;
}

EVR.Level.Streak.Glyph = function(streak, index, count)
{
   EVR.Graphic.call(this, streak.container, null, null, ALIGN_BOTTOM_LEFT);
   this.streak = streak;
   this.set_attributes();
   this.append();
}
EVR.Level.Streak.Glyph.prototype = new EVR.Graphic;
EVR.Level.Streak.Glyph.prototype.set_attributes = function()
{
   this.set_proportions(STREAK_GLYPH_WIDTH, STREAK_GLYPH_HEIGHT);
   this.set_z(STREAK_Z_INDEX);
   this.set_opacity(STREAK_OPACITY);
   this.css.fontWeight = STREAK_FONT_WEIGHT;
   this.set_text();
   this.initialize_position();
}
EVR.Level.Streak.Glyph.prototype.set_text = function()
{
   this.text = this.determine_text();
   this.set_color_index();
   var font = STREAK_FONT_FAMILY;
   var color = STREAK_COLORS[this.color_index];
   var size = STREAK_FONT_SIZE;
   this.set_shadow(font, size);
   var cheer = new EVR.Graphic(this, null, null, ALIGN_TOP, this.container);
   cheer.set_proportions(STREAK_GLYPH_WIDTH, 0);
   cheer.set_text(this.text, font, color, size);
   cheer.append();
   this.cheer = cheer;
}
EVR.Level.Streak.Glyph.prototype.set_color_index = function()
{
   this.color_index = Math.get_random_int(0, STREAK_COLORS.length - 1);
}
EVR.Level.Streak.Glyph.prototype.determine_text = function()
{
   var cheers = STREAK_CHEERS;
   var streak = this.streak.streak;
   var range = Math.get_random_number(0, streak / STREAK_CHEER_GRADIENT);
   (range >= 1) && (range = .999);
   var index = Math.floor(cheers.length * range);
   return cheers[index];
}
EVR.Level.Streak.Glyph.prototype.set_shadow = function(font, size)
{
   var shadow = new EVR.Graphic(this, null, null, ALIGN_TOP, this.container);
   var color = STREAK_SHADOWS[this.color_index];
   shadow.set_proportions(STREAK_GLYPH_WIDTH, 0);
   shadow.set_text(this.text, font, color, size);
   shadow.append();
   this.shadow = shadow;
   this.place_shadow();
}
EVR.Level.Streak.Glyph.prototype.place_shadow = function()
{
   var shadow = this.shadow;
   var position = shadow.get_coordinates();
   var offset = STREAK_SHADOW_OFFSET;
   var coordinates = [position[0] + offset[0], position[1] + offset[1]];
   shadow.set_coordinates(coordinates);
}
EVR.Level.Streak.Glyph.prototype.initialize_position = function()
{
   var x = Math.random();
   var y = -Math.get_random_number(STREAK_MIN_Y, STREAK_MAX_Y);
   this.place(x, y);
}
EVR.Level.Streak.Glyph.prototype.draw = function()
{
   EVR.Graphic.prototype.draw.call(this);
   if (!!this.shadow && !!this.cheer)
   {
      this.shadow.draw();
      this.place_shadow();
      this.cheer.draw();
   }
}
EVR.Level.Streak.Glyph.prototype.toString = function()
{
   return "[object EVR.Level.Streak.Glyph]";
}

18.118.207.176

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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