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The central code loop responsible for handling the running gameplay. At its most basic state, it accepts input, resolves the actions of entities, and renders the scene.

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EXTREMELY Confused Over “Constant Game Speed Maximum FPS” Game Loop

I recently read this article on Game Loops: http://www.koonsolo.com/news/dewitters-gameloop/ And the recommended last implementation is confusing me deeply. I don't understand how it works, and it ...
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How precise should timers in update loops be?

What is the suggestion of "enough precision" in a timer for a fixed game update loop? Currently I'm testing with this code, but it sometimes misses 1-2 updates @ 50hz. While at 30hz it seems to work ...
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Android: Improving surfaceView?

I'm using Surfaceview in my Android app. I have two threads, one for UI and another for rendering and updading the UI. I am limiting my frames per second to 30 fps and have employed frame-skipping ...
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How do I calculate consistent frame timings at 60fps?

I'm writing an HTML canvas game that uses requestAnimationFrame and therefore runs at 60fps, although this is more of a question about failing arithmetic than about JavaScript. If I measure the time ...
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Online card games: game loop or event based?

The only games I've made have been the game loop variety. I'm just starting to think about building an online poker game where people could meet up in a lobby, etc. Cards seem event based... is the ...
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Using boost function to wrap execution of a boost signals2 signal

I am considering using the boost library to design a simple yet effective callback event notification framework for my game application. The idea is that objects that can raise events would have a ...
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Multiple pipelined game loops

I am considering using the following game engine design pattern, but I am unsure if it's a good idea or not: Each major task (drawing, physics, logic, networking, disk I/O) will have its own ...
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XNA - moving the 3rd person camera

I'm having following problem: Can't set my camera to follow object from behind and rotate when I use left/right arrow. I've tried different tutorial and examples but it still doesn't work for me. ...
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SDL2 focus lost = massive gain in FPS

Whenever I lose focus from my game window, I go from ~60FPS to 6000+, then when the window gains focus again, I go back to around 60 frames per second. And yes, this happens every time I run my game, ...
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Design of a turn-based game where actions have side-effects

I am writing a computer version of the game Dominion. It is a turn-based card game where action cards, treasure cards, and victory point cards are accumulated into a player's personal deck. I have the ...
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Simultaneous events in a realtime system, where processing order causes different outcomes

I am working on a realtime dungeon crawler, focusing on a relatively complex and flexible skill system. Somewhat similar to MMORPGs with many compound spells, area effects, buffs/debuffs, ect. I am ...
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Game loop, how to check for conditions once, do something, then not do it again

For example, I have a Game class and it keeps an int that tracks the player's lives. I have a conditional if ( mLives < 1 ) { // Do some work. } However this condition keeps firing and the ...
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How to monitor the object position while it moves from one place to another?

In my game two objects rotate in opposite directions and at one particular place, the two objects meet. In that place I want to track the x and y degrees. If this is possible please share your ideas. ...
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Am I doing this node.js game loop wrong?

I have 2 arrays of JSON objects, actions and game objects. At any time a user can make a request from the client which can add an action to the actions array. I have a setInterval(function(){ }, ...
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Server side game loop

Many java games use thread.sleep() to controll fps. Since the server does not display graphics, should the server game loop keep running just calculating delta time? Like this example: long ...
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Should I redraw every pixel?

For my first game I implemented a tetris clone in javascript. My "canvas" and an HTML <table> with every <td> representing a single block. Instead of having a gameloop redraw every single ...
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HTML5/JS - Choppy Game Loop

I have been experimenting with HTML5/JS, trying to create a simple game when I hit a wall. My choice of game loop is too choppy to be actually of any use in a game. I'm trying for a fixed time step ...
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Implementation of Race Game Tree

I build a racing game right in OpenGL using Glut, and I'm a bit lost in all the details. First of all, any suggestions as a road map would be more than great. So far what I thought is this: Tree ...
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Calculating Delta time , what is wrong?

For 2 days now i am trying to calculate the correct delta time for my game , I am starting to getting crazy since i tried all the solutions that i found on the 5 first google pages... What is wrong? I ...
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Triggering State Changes with Health Counter

I'm developing a game where the player changes states as their health decreases. Below 50, it should trigger animation1. Below 30, it should trigger animation2. The problem is, I only want to trigger ...
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Help to organize game cycle in Java

I'm pretty new here (as though to a game development). So here's my question. I'm trying to organize a really simple game cycle in my public static main() as follows: Scanner sc = new ...
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How to slow down a sprite that updates every frame?

I am going through a Allegro 5 tutorial which has a game loop. There is also a variable "active" which determines if a key is being held down. Thus if the left key is being held down active is on and ...
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Networking Client Server Packet logic (How they communicate)

I want to know what is the logic behind server client communication through packets for a real time game. for example the server sends x packets then the client receives x packets and processes them.. ...
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2D Game Help In XNA

I'm making a game in XNA called The Adventure Of The Very Hairy Princess Fairy. The game is a "Sidescroller/Platformer" like mario but there is a problem. How do I attach a weapon to the player ...
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How to make this game loop deterministic

I am using the following game loop for my pacman clone: long prevTime = System.currentTimeMillis(); while (running) { long curTime = System.currentTimeMillis(); float ...
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Passing elapsed time to the update function from the game loop

I want to pass the time elapsed to the update() method as this would make easy to implement the animations and time related concepts. Here's my game-loop. public void gameLoop(){ boolean running ...
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javascript game loop and game update design

There is a main game loop in my program, which calls game update every frame. However, to make better animation and better control, there is a need to implement a function like updateEveryNFrames(n, ...
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Making A C++ Game [closed]

I'm gonna make a game and I think C++ would be perfect for it. I think I'm gonna use SDL and OpenGL but I need help with making the code manageable. These were my ideas: 1. Making A DLL File With ...
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Turn-based Strategy Loop

I'm working on a strategy game. It's turn-based and card-based (think Dominion-style), done in a client, with eventual AI in the works. I've already implemented almost all of the game logic (methods ...
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random spike in delta time

The title pretty much sums it up. I'm using delta time to move my objects and every few seconds the delta time will spike and all the objects will jump forward. Should I just Interpolate the delta ...
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Kinect losing tracked players with Beta2 SDK

I'm creating a game using the Beta2 SDK for Kinect. The issue i am having is that in the middle of gameplay if another person enters the Kinects FOV it stops tracking the player and will not track ...
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what is the best way to use loops to detect events while the main loop is running?

I am making an "game" that has pathfinding using pygame. I am using Astar algo. I have a main loop which draws the whole map. In the loop I check for events. If user press "enter" or "space", random ...
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Best practices on separating Update and Draw on game loop

I've been working on my first HTML5 prototype and I found a good model that uses the regular Update and Draw loop we see in game dev. My question is, where does one end and the other begins? The ...
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Why is the framerate (fps) capped at 60?

ISSUE I recently moved a project from my laptop to my desktop(machine info below). On my laptop the exact same code displays the fps(and ms/f) correctly. On my desktop it does not. What I mean by ...
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Why does my game loop speed vary on different platforms with the same hardware?

I've got a serious issue with my game loop. This loop varies in time with the platform and with the same hardware. This is a list of FPS achieved: - Windows ======= 140 to 150 - Linux ...
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What is wrong with my game loop/mechanic? [closed]

I'm currently working on a 2d sidescrolling game prototype in HTML5 canvas. My implementations so far include a sprite, vector, loop and ticker class/object. Which can be viewed here: ...
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Speed, delta time and movement

player.vx = scroll_speed * dt /* Update positions */ player.x += player.vx player.y += player.vy I have a delta time in miliseconds, and I was wondering how I can use it properly. I tried the ...
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Android, how important is deltaTime?

Im making a game that is getting pretty big and sometimes my thread has to skip a frame, so far I'm not using deltaTime for setting the speed of my different objects in the game because it's still not ...
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Explaining Asteroids Movement code

I'm writing an Asteroids Atari clone, and I want to figure out how the AI for the asteroids is done. I have came across that piece of code, but I can't get what it does 100% if ...
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how to get started with a game engine [closed]

I'm a 3rd year Computer Science student and I would like to get started with building a game engine or at least tinkering with making one. I am curious if there are any good resources to use to get ...
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Negative timeout value in Variable Timestep loop

I was working on my game loop and I came across an odd problem. The loop was working fine, my states could render, received updates, etc. I then proceeded to create my Input system, which, also works. ...
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How to precisely limit fps

I am having trouble making my game's main loop to run at exactly N fps. Let's say i want game to run at constant 60 fps. Here is part of my code: int ticksPerSecond = 60; int skipTicks = 1000 / ...
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Best practices in Game architechture design [closed]

I have to create a game using Java. It is a simple game with a mix of rules from Texas Hold'em and Scrabble. The purpose of this project is to cover all software engineering practices. I have some ...
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User input in game loop

I am building a simple multi-player fly-around-a-3D-world game in Javascript/webGL/websocket (Chrome, Firefox mostly). How should I handle and process user input? My preliminary design (untested) is ...
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Java2D Game Flickering

I'm in the process of trying to get familiar with making games in Java, using the Swing library. Coding my Snake game however, I've got to a point where the game is flickering/ghosting and I haven't ...
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Rendering Loop Problem (Java)

I'm not new to programming, but I am relatively new to game programming. I am trying to create a version of Breakout, as a good basic game to get myself introduced to 2d game programming. I currently ...
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Benefits of implementing systems like classes instead of just functions

In an Entity System I am making, there is a central class called World, which stores all component instances. It's a dictionary-of-arrays, and entity ids are indexes for the arrays. To access a ...
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Game loop alternatives for efficiency

Understand where I'm coming from - I've been taught that a game is implemented something like this (pseudocode): while (!win_condition) { waitforinput(); updategraphics(); //etc.. } exit(); ...
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Replay system: record inputs or events?

I read this: How to design a replay system But it don't really answer my question. My game is built with the client "view" of the game as a separate program from the server "model" and "controller". ...
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What would be the problems with using a singleton design pattern for my engine?

I'm desiging an HTML5 2D game engine in Javascript, and currently, I use the singleton pattern. There is only one global object in the namespace called simply Engine. All other objects are ...

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