I find that most game development requires a main game loop, but I don't know why it's necessary. Couldn't we implement an event listener and respond to every user action? Animations (etc.) could t...

I'm trying to make a simple 2D game in Java. As far as I know, my game should consist of two threads: "event dispatch thread" (for GUI operations) and "game thread" (for game lo...

So I've written the following function to show what i mean: use std::{thread, time}; const TARGET_FPS: u64 = 60; fn main() { let mut frames = 0; let target_ft = time::Duration::from_micros(1000...

Is there a simple way to make a game loop in JavaScript? something like... onTimerTick() { // update game state }

If you're not familiar with the Gaffer on Games article "Fix your Timestep", you can find it here: https://gafferongames.com/post/fix_your_timestep/ I'm building a game engine, and in an effort to...

In the process of trying to work out a solid game loop in SFML I came across this issue which I can't seem to figure out. I was able to strip out all of the SFML code and still see the issue with c...

I'm developing an Android Game.In this game, There are tracks on which trains run. This is running thread. I want to show an alert dialog when there is a collision between. when I'm applying alert ...

Call main.lua script at each game loop iteration - is it good or bad design? How does it affect on the performance (relatively)? Maintain game state from a. C++ host-program or b. from Lua script...

im currently making a 2D game in Firemonkey for my Android phone using some TImage Controls and controling their positions and angles. Simple as that. I tried to use my normal way of looping, which...

I'm trying to figure out the best design pattern to use for managing a "competition" between two interacting objects. For example, if I want to have a Fox class that chases a Rabbit class through a...

For a while now I've experienced an intermittent 'stuttering' of the sprites that are in motion within my Android Game. It's a fiarly simple 2D OpenGL ES 2.0 game. (This is an ongoing problem which...

My setup is a multiplayer game, with sockets to async transfer data. Now because of the nature of a game, I have a game loop which should tick every 500ms to do player updating (e.g. position, app...

I'm implementing a game loop with constant FPS. I'm thinking about 25-30 FPS should be enough. Any ideas from your own experience? Should I even restrict FPS at all?

I'm new to JavaFX and am trying to write a game where an animated 2D character walks across the screen (for example like the original Legend of Zelda game). I had done this in Swing, by creating my...

I've been reading Koen Witters detailed article about different game loop solutions but I'm having some problems implementing the last one with GLUT, which is the recommended one. After reading a ...

I just started with game development in android, and I'm working on a super simple game. The game is basically like flappy bird. I managed to get everything to work, but I get a lot of stutters...

Talking with some game developers, they suggested that a performant OpenGL ES based game engine does not handle everything on the main thread. This allows the game engine to perform better on devic...

I want to code a game in Haskell where every iteration of the loop computes the state of the world. I thought I should create a function: gameLoop :: World -> World -- ... and have main :: IO...

I'm trying to write a python game loop that hopefully takes into account FPS. What is the correct way to call the loop? Some of the possibilities I've considered are below. I'm trying not to use a ...

For stand alone games, the basic game loop is (source: wikipedia) while( user doesn't exit ) check for user input run AI move enemies resolve collisions draw graphics play sounds end while ...

I recently tried to get into games programming. I am pretty experienced with Java, but not with game programming. I read http://www.koonsolo.com/news/dewitters-gameloop/ and implemented the game lo...

I'm making an android game and am currently not getting the performance I'd like. I have a game loop in its own thread which updates an object's position. The rendering thread will traverse these o...

I'm working on a simple game, this is my first game project. Most of the samples I find have a Render Loop where all the game logic is made too and I just don't like this. Let's say I have a ball ...

From what I've seen, if I wanna make a NON-opengl game loop what I can do is have a game thread that during the loop will update the game state (or game physics) and also update the graphics by loc...

I could find a set of java 2D game tutorials and android game tutorials which uses only native graphics libraries. I'm looking for something similar in C# ( without DirectX or XNA) I found this gam...