game loop Archives - Petamind https://petaminds.com/tag/game-loop/ A.I, Data and Software Engineering Tue, 05 Oct 2021 06:07:38 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://petaminds.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/ic_launcher.png game loop Archives - Petamind https://petaminds.com/tag/game-loop/ 32 32 re-dev the first video game pong with SurfaceView and gameloop https://petaminds.com/re-dev-the-first-video-game-pong-with-surfaceview-and-gameloop/ https://petaminds.com/re-dev-the-first-video-game-pong-with-surfaceview-and-gameloop/#comments Mon, 14 Sep 2020 02:21:56 +0000 https://petaminds.com/?p=2688 In this article, we recreate the two-player game Pong – the first arcade video game 1972 – for Android using Kotlin. We will implement the game SurfaceView, game loop design pattern, and code optimization for better performance. Game loop Game loop is a common design pattern in game development. It is already integrated into different […]

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]]> https://petaminds.com/re-dev-the-first-video-game-pong-with-surfaceview-and-gameloop/feed/ 1 Game Frame rate and character animations (part 2) https://petaminds.com/game-frame-rate-and-character-animations-part-2/ https://petaminds.com/game-frame-rate-and-character-animations-part-2/#respond Tue, 05 Nov 2019 21:47:44 +0000 https://petaminds.com/?p=1648 In part 1, we covered the principle of game frame rate and a useful game programming pattern for performance. This part shows the detailed implementation of a game scene with hundreds of moving characters using Android Studio and Kotlin. Image asset This game uses a free image from wild-refuge.net. You can download any similar image […]

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]]> https://petaminds.com/game-frame-rate-and-character-animations-part-2/feed/ 0 Game frame rate & Character animations (part 1) https://petaminds.com/game-frame-rate-character-animations-part-1/ https://petaminds.com/game-frame-rate-character-animations-part-1/#comments Fri, 01 Nov 2019 03:14:55 +0000 https://petaminds.com/?p=1512 A simple game does not always come with simple implementation w.r.t character animations. This articles will introduce a practical design pattern in game development to deal with this. How many animations in this game scene Let have a look at the famous game scene of flappy bird and try to identify how many animations. Visually, […]

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