The game loop with a timer will act as follows:<\/p>\n
1. Show the main menu and get user to start the game<\/span><\/p>\n 2. Initialise the game variables, setup memory, menus, etc.<\/span><\/p>\n 3. Now start the game and do the following:<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 3.1 Check if the operating system (Windows, Mac OS, iOS) has any messages for us to process<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 3.2 Get user input (from keyboard, mouse, game controller, touchscreen, etc)<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 3.3 Process game logic (maths, physics, update to score, etc go here)<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 3.4 Draw the graphics scene of the game to a memory buffer (not video)<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 3.5 When this is ready, quickly show it to the screen<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 3.6 Wait a little while (fix it at\u00a0a number\u00a0frames per second (FPS) using a timer – eg 60 FPS)<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 3.7\u00a0 If the game is not finished or user does not quit, go to step 3.1<\/span><\/p>\n 4. Once the user quits the game, do a cleanup and free memory allocated<\/span><\/p>\n 5.\u00a0 Either go back to step 1 or exit to the operating system (Windows, Mac OS, iOS)<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n More info on game loops is here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Games are real-time programs. This means that the game should run all the time and not wait for the user to respond. If the user does respond by pressing a key or button, then the game will update based on the user input. A game is also known as a “state machine” – it needs … Continue reading Game Loop<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-69","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ruzzgames.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/69","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ruzzgames.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ruzzgames.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ruzzgames.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ruzzgames.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.ruzzgames.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/69\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":577,"href":"https:\/\/www.ruzzgames.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/69\/revisions\/577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ruzzgames.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}