A Python program to parse a given JSON file to virtualize keyboard inputs.
Designed especially for a platformer running at 60 fps.

Also includes TAS (tool assisted speedrun) json files for various stages in Dessert Dive.

Created in January 2019 for

Install keyboard:

pip install keyboard

• Execute via sudo python3 virtual_key.py [folder_name/file_name.json]
• Location for TAS json should go in a user-made appropriate game folder in games

type gives the type of data that follows. Can only be either key or comment.

cmd gives the data to be used.

• comment types will be printed on the console. It should follow this format:

"cmd" : "[your comment goes here]"

• key type should follow this format:

"cmd" : [
	{
		"dur" : [number of frames out of 60],
		"key" : "[key to be pressed]"
	},
	{	[more can be added, following the above format] }
]

If more than one pair of dur and key are added in the same cmd, they will be executed all at once, being de-pressed according to their number of frames respectively.

num gives the number of times to execute the given list of keys.

Jacky Wong, Kaleb Chestnut