CHAPTER 20

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Implementing a Main Loop in Dart

John McCutchan, Software Engineer, Google

At the heart of your favorite games is the game loop. At the core of the game loop is control over the game clock. In each frame the game does some or all of the following: updates the game state, triggers timers, processes user inputs, renders graphics, and plays audio. Each of these operations must be synchronized using a virtual clock controlled by the game loop. This chapter explains how to implement a deterministic and efficient main loop for any type of game designed from the ground up to run in the browser.

This chapter uses the Dart programming language ...

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