HTML5 Game Development from the Ground Up with Construct 2

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a browser and not as a native code executable program. is means that

keeping the same, or similar, performance in terms of frames per second

(FPS, which, in Construct, we can easily display by using the fps keyword

in a text object) may be challenging, and it is something we should con-

sider already at the design stage of our games.

In particular, we should be careful about these features that require

considerable processing power:

• Physics: if too many objects on-screen are using the physics engine,

this will denitely slow down the game.

• Particles: each particle is actually a small sprite, so you can imagine

how having several hundreds of them on the screen at the same time

may overload a not so powerf ...