Video Games

EVR.Level.Road.Borders = function(container, level)
{
   this.container = container;
   this.background = level.background;
   this.height = ROAD_BORDER_WIDTH;
   this.build();
}
EVR.Level.Road.Borders.prototype.build = function()
{
   this.borders = [];
   this.borders.push(this.build_border(ALIGN_TOP, -this.height));
   this.borders.push(this.build_border(ALIGN_BOTTOM, this.height));
}
EVR.Level.Road.Borders.prototype.build_border = function(alignment, offset)
{
   var border = new EVR.Graphic(
      this.container, null, null, alignment, this.container.container);
   border.set_color(this.background);
   border.set_proportions(1, this.height);
   border.place(null, offset);
   border.append();
   return border;
}
EVR.Level.Road.Borders.prototype.draw = function()
{
   for (var ii = 0; ii < this.borders.length; ii++)
   {
      this.borders[ii].draw();
   }
}
EVR.Level.Road.Borders.prototype.get_dimensions = function(ratio)
{
   return this.borders[0].get_dimensions(ratio);
}
EVR.Level.Road.Borders.prototype.get_coordinates = function(ratio)
{
   return this.borders[0].get_coordinates(ratio);
}
EVR.Level.Road.Borders.prototype.toString = function()
{
   return "[object EVR.Level.Road.Borders]";
}

EVR.Level.Road.Racer.Ghost = function(container, level)
{
   EVR.Level.Road.Racer.call(this, container, level);
   this.initialize_avatar();
   this.set_step();
   this.update_dimensions();
   this.initialize_trail();
   this.lane = 0;
}
EVR.Level.Road.Racer.Ghost.prototype = new EVR.Level.Road.Racer;
EVR.Level.Road.Racer.Ghost.prototype.initialize_avatar = function()
{
   EVR.Level.Road.Racer.prototype.initialize_avatar.call(this);
   this.avatar.set_opacity(GHOST_OPACITY);
}
EVR.Level.Road.Racer.Ghost.prototype.initialize_trail = function()
{
   var trail = new EVR.Level.Road.Path.Trail(this.level);
   trail.load();
   this.index = 0;
   this.marker = trail[0];
   this.trail = trail;
}
EVR.Level.Road.Racer.Ghost.prototype.update =
   function(player_speed, rate, cluster)
{
   if (this.trail.trail.length > 0)
   {
      this.advance_marker();
      this.update_offset(player_speed, rate);
      if (cluster >= 0)
      {
	 this.update_map_indicator(cluster);
      }
      this.lane = this.marker.lane;
   }
   this.place();
}
EVR.Level.Road.Racer.Ghost.prototype.place = function()
{
   if (this.trail.trail.length > 0)
   {
      EVR.Level.Road.Racer.prototype.place.call(this);
   }
}
// fix offset during redraw
EVR.Level.Road.Racer.Ghost.prototype.advance_marker = function()
{
//    var time = this.level.clock.time.get();
//    var trail = this.trail.trail;
//    var index = this.index;
//    var limit = trail.length - 1;
//    var advanced = false;
//    while (index < limit && trail[index + 1].time < time)
//    {
//       advanced = true;
//       index++;
//    }
//    this.index = index;
//    this.marker = trail[index];
//    return advanced;
   var index = this.index + 1;
   var trail = this.trail.trail;
   if (index >= trail.length)
   {
      index--;
   }
   this.marker = trail[index];
   this.index = index;
}
EVR.Level.Road.Racer.Ghost.prototype.update_offset =
   function(player_speed, rate)
{
   var dimensions = this.container.get_dimensions();
   var ratio = dimensions[1] / dimensions[0];
   var difference = this.marker.speed - parseFloat(player_speed);
   this.offset += difference * ratio * rate;
}
EVR.Level.Road.Racer.Ghost.prototype.update_map_indicator =
   function(cluster_index)
{
   var road = this.container;
   var map = this.level.map;
   var racer_x = road.racer.get_coordinates()[0];
   var distance = racer_x - this.get_coordinates()[0];
   var direction = distance <= 0 ? 1 : -1;
   distance = Math.abs(distance);
   var items = road.path.items;
   var cluster = items[cluster_index];
   if (direction < 0)
   {
      var edge = cluster.get_coordinates()[0];
   }
   else
   {
      var edge = cluster.get_coordinates()[0] + cluster.get_dimensions()[0];
   }
   var difference = Math.abs(racer_x - edge);
   var remove = false;
   for (var ii = cluster_index; ii < items.length - 1 && ii > 0; ii += direction)
   {
      if (difference >= distance)
      {
	 break;
      }
      cluster = items[ii + direction];
      difference += cluster.get_dimensions()[0];
   }
   if (ii > 0 && ii < items.length - 1)
   {
      map.advance_ghost(ii - 1);
   }
}
EVR.Level.Road.Racer.Ghost.prototype.toString = function()
{
   return "[object EVR.Level.Road.Racer.Ghost]";
}

EVR.include("level/road/racer/player/Player.js");
EVR.include("level/road/racer/Ghost.js");
EVR.include("level/road/racer/flame/Flame.js");
EVR.include("level/road/racer/flash/Flash.js");
EVR.Level.Road.Racer = function(container, level)
{
   this.container = container;
   this.level = level;
   this.lane = 0;
}
EVR.Level.Road.Racer.prototype.initialize_avatar = function()
{
   var container = this.container;
   var avatar = new EVR.Emoticon(this.level.container);
   avatar.set_container(container);
   avatar.aligner.alignment = ALIGN_TOP_LEFT;
   avatar.set_proportions(1, container.beam_height);
   avatar.set_color();
   avatar.append();
   this.avatar = avatar;
   this.initialize_offset();
}
EVR.Level.Road.Racer.prototype.initialize_offset = function()
{
   var dimensions = this.avatar.container.get_dimensions();
   this.offset = dimensions[1] / dimensions[0] / PLAYER_OFFSET;
}
EVR.Level.Road.Racer.prototype.place = function()
{
   this.avatar.place(this.offset, this.step * this.lane);
}
EVR.Level.Road.Racer.prototype.set_step = function()
{
   var height = this.container.beam_height;
   var margin = this.container.margin;
   this.step = height + margin;
}
EVR.Level.Road.Racer.prototype.draw = function()
{
   this.place();
   this.avatar.draw();
   this.update_dimensions();
}
EVR.Level.Road.Racer.prototype.move = function(direction)
{
   var lane = this.lane + direction;
   var count = this.level.count_lanes();
   if (lane < 0)
   {
      this.lane = count - 1;
   }
   else if (lane >= count)
   {
      this.lane = 0;
   }
   else
   {
      this.lane = lane;
   }
   this.place();
}
EVR.Level.Road.Racer.prototype.update_dimensions = function()
{
   this.dimensions = this.avatar.get_dimensions();
}
EVR.Level.Road.Racer.prototype.get_dimensions = function(ratio)
{
   if (ratio == true)
   {
      return this.avatar.get_dimensions(true);
   }
   else
   {
      return this.dimensions;
   }
}
EVR.Level.Road.Racer.prototype.get_coordinates = function(ratio)
{
   return this.avatar.get_coordinates(ratio);
}
EVR.Level.Road.Racer.prototype.remove = function()
{
   this.avatar.remove();
}
EVR.Level.Road.Racer.prototype.toString = function()
{
   return "[object EVR.Level.Road.Racer]";
}

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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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