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See also: System: ANIMATION this is NOT necessarily movement – in fact, for frame based animation, it is likely not to be… So, this is just for the animation bit. There will also need to be a bit that has data about the sequence: This is the sort of data TILED will produce. See TILED…

See also: System: CAVEATS – consider the tech you are using and how it handles coordintaes –  Phaser – Container – A Container, as the name implies, can ‘contain’ other types of Game Object. When a Game Object is added to a Container, the Container becomes responsible for the rendering of it. By default it…

See also: collision System: input The basics: Moving left – then flipping the direction Movement is context based – for example, the background moves when in an ‘over world’ type map (such as map in LTTP), but not necessarily if you are in a small room which will totally fit with the game screen (like…

See also: for anything that you are using… JS – is single threaded… (is this still the case in 2022?) – yes it is! https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/javascript/mutlithreading-in-javascript/ use anonymous functions (arrow functions) to reduce memory usage Off load onto GPU Graphics Smaller images are usually painted faster than bigger ones. Scaling is evil.  Sprite sheets work a…

See also: Game loop Games states help you arrange the game into logical groupings Only swap between states when necesary, and only the bits that are necessary – e.g.  …structuring your game loop like this will make it much, much easier to do things such as switching game scenes and levels. It means that you…

See also: Progression and achievement system Requirements: Layers OBJECT LAYERS – export as data COLLISION (folder) – export as data GRAPHICS (folder) – export as data and graphics Question – is it better to generate background/foreground map at runtime (or at load/set up time) – or load a complete graphic? I feel that its better…

Well, do you even need it? Apple changed the ipod shuffle play algorithm – because random can clump, but we don’t think it should… Seed Were it is – e.g. the running game i made, had a selection of predefined map sections that were ‘randomly’ selected – so long as there was not the same…

See: Progression – Quest design. Consider what data needs to be maintained between levels/sections Also, consider what does NOT need to maintained – e.g. having sub sectional maps for particular purposes, which have particular data (like objects/locked things etc.) that are no longer required later, but don’t need to be ‘checked’ for from that point…

Immutability – always use ‘const’ to declare variables Separate data and functions Data is represented by JS objects (JS’s version of arrays or hashes…) – it is a constant source of truth Functions act separately and make a modified copy of the data First-class functions – allows us to treat functions the way we treat…

See also: Game states optimisation A game loop should be able to: SOURCE: https://gameprogrammingpatterns.com/game-loop.html Javascript – best practices for performant gameloops Performance is based upon how many things a game has to do each iteration of the loop. If you can defer a task, good. If you can store and reuse something, good. Consider if…