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Lakshita Kumawat
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Game Loop - One Byte Explainer

This is a submission for the Web Game Challenge: One Byte Explainer

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In simple words, Game loop is like when you play a pokemon rom, you have to battle with the Gym leader until you win. This sometimes become annoying 😮‍💚

Additional Context

Not only battle but every step in a game is game loop. There are different type of game loop . In a game loop, the main process are input, update and render. These process makes the game playable.

Its like when you hit a key, the program will look for the function and then render the result.

For a more better example, when you press W on a keyboard, the program moves the player one step upwards and then changes the player current position to new position.

That's how it works in simple word 😁 Hope this post will help you 😊

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Lakshita Kumawat • • Edited

Is there anyone who also loves to play pokemon roms? 🙂

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Brandon •

Without it, games would freeze or lag?

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Lakshita Kumawat •

The game will be like a image cause you will even not be able to move

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