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viznut | Ville-Matias Heikkilä
viznut@venera.social
Watt-Wise Game Jam started yesterday, and the submission deadline will be on April 22nd.
Interestingly, the introductory text has been written from the point of view that the entire frame would be recalculated on every screen refresh. This is actually an approach that sometimes annoys me a lot. Especially in turn-based games that waste CPU cycles even when waiting or paused.
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@viznut where do you read this? It encourages people to do the opposite and target a lower frame-rate, in the optimizations section. I suppose it's for people thinking about using engines with a tick update to run timers like in unity or godot.
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viznut | Ville-Matias Heikkilä
viznut@venera.social
I'm referring to the idea of rerendering the entire frame, regardless of the framerate. This idea is something that became prominent in game development in the nineties, I think. Games written for older platforms generally update only what is necessary.
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