Frameskipping would speed it up. ( So only display every other frame ).

Quote from: Eeems on September 09, 2011, 02:44:55 pm

Frameskipping would speed it up. ( So only display every other frame ).

With that, the game speed would remain the same, but it would be even choppier (notes and such would pass at half speed but seemingly at 2 pixels per jump)

Not at all, you see a lot of processing time is taken in displaying a frame. In TBP I gain a lot of speed by skipping a few frames. You do move two pixels, but it seems to move faster because in truth, the program has more time to work on the actual processing of whatever needs to be done in the background because all the foreground code ( so the displaying ) isn't taking up as much time. The game does start getting pretty choppy when you start skipping a lot of frames but usually just a one fameskip isn't noticeable unless you are looking closely.

EDIT: ninja'd With a much better explanation.

I'd use a counter variable and skip every second / third frame using an if statement with the modulus operator ^.


0->C   .Counter variable
game loop
   .do calculations here
   !If C^2    .Increase number to skip more frames -> gain more speed
      .do drawing stuff / displaying here
   End
   C++
End


Er...
a CALCULATOR game.
Or can you write that in Axe??

Aniway, Thanx!

It is written in Axe.
If you're wondering about the ++ operator, it's been in Axe since 0.5.2 or so, and if you're wondering about the ^ operator, it's been in Axe since before 0.1.0.

I hope it'll be faster!!