Making Games
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Making Games
18 Oct Why does a game run faster on a faster PC? Game loop and delta time explained Ever noticed a game run faster on a quicker computer? That's the game loop at work. If you move things a fixed amount every frame, a faster… Making Games
7 Oct How does a 2D character walk? Sprite sheets and animation speed Every 2D game character walks the same way a flipbook does: a few drawings shown one after another. Games pack those drawings into a single… Making Games
3 Oct How does a game make a character jump? Gravity and the game loop A jump in a game isn't an animation. It's two tiny sums, velocity changes by gravity, then position changes by velocity, repeated every…
18 Oct Why does a game run faster on a faster PC? Game loop and delta time explained Ever noticed a game run faster on a quicker computer? That's the game loop at work. If you move things a fixed amount every frame, a faster… Making Games
7 Oct How does a 2D character walk? Sprite sheets and animation speed Every 2D game character walks the same way a flipbook does: a few drawings shown one after another. Games pack those drawings into a single… Making Games
3 Oct How does a game make a character jump? Gravity and the game loop A jump in a game isn't an animation. It's two tiny sums, velocity changes by gravity, then position changes by velocity, repeated every…