Entry 158

The game over: ccThGameOver, its noise and the television

2026-09-26world

Filescrates/piney-world/src/gameover.rscrates/piney-game/src/gameover.rscrates/piney-game/src/area.rscrates/piney-world/src/field_world.rscrates/piney-audio/src/driver.rs

Before this, a wiped party (or compulsionGameOver) made ccThGameCtrl answer Ctrl::GameOver once, and the field just froze. Now the port runs the rest, as docs/engine/field-walk.md "The game over" and "ccThGameOver and its noise" set out.

The signal frame: the pause, the menu forbidden, the message closed. The next frame: ccSndGameOver (the sound's gameInterrupt and a 20-step sq_fade of every sequence, Driver::game_over) and ccThGameOver started. It waits 181 frames on the frozen field, then runs ccGameOverNoise::Main each frame. The noise has three phases: 51 frames of short sampling bursts, 41 of sampling and inversion, then one long burst while the TV switches off. The switch-off halves the picture's height to a line (sound 90, the flash), holds three frames, then takes a quarter of the width at a time down to a dot. InitData leaves the flash armed, so it fires twice: at the second squeeze and at the line. Only StretchTV_Y sends the fader's packet, so the flash shows only while the picture squeezes.

Once Main answers 0, the field's tasks go. After 2 + 40 frames of black, the "over" file's ANM_xdggame0 (GAME OVER in red) plays on layer 129 to its end, and ccOpenGameOverMenu's ChangeRequest(1, 7) resets to the title.

In the port, piney_world::gameover::GameOverNoise is the noise (ccRand for its odds, newlib's rand for ccNoiz's bands, both through FieldWorld::with_rands). piney-game's GameOverTask is the task. AreaMode starts the task on FieldWorld::take_game_over, runs it before the frame is finished, and applies the view frame the noise leaves with gameover::squeeze: every command of the frame (prim vertices, model matrices and scissors) is moved into the band. Once the field is gone, frame_alone draws the black frames and the clip.

Checks: the_television_switches_off (with ccRand all 0: 51 + 41 frames, the flashes at the 94th and 101st, w = h = 1, the noise at phase 4), a_squeeze_maps_the_frame_into_the_band, and the session test a_game_over_ends_at_the_title, which forces the game over in story area 14's field. Its sound is at frame 1, the TV is off at 282 and the title comes at 470. game_over_shots (ignored) saves the noise, the squeeze, the line and GAME OVER. They look as described.