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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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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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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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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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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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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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JS: Should I have an upper limit to the number of update cycles per sec?

I'm making a javascript game engine for fun and one thing I noticed was that my laptop runs super hot with the simplest game mechanics and that my game is doing about 600 updates per second. The ...