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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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Flash Custom Events

I am working on a Flash Tower Defense game. I have a main game loop which is an eventListener for each frame. Whenever you gain money or lose a life, I want the GameUI to be updated to display this ...
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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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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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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(){ }, ...