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I really love this talk by Mary Rose Cook — she illustrates step-by-step how to code a game loop from scratch in 30 minutes. https://youtu.be/hbKN-9o5_Z0 https

• panopticon 6y ago
  Note that the article being discussed here is about gameplay loops; not a game engine loop. I only mention this because this comment primed me for a discussion about game engine design instead of game design.
• rishav_sharan 6y ago
  Thank you. That's a lovely resource
• marai2 6y ago
  This was awesome! I'm going to code this with my son this weekend! It's simple enough to comprehend and should allow us to code this in a few hours with his basic programming knowledge.
• jholman 6y ago
  panopticon is correct that this talk is sort of off-topic, because it's about game-dev gameloops, not game-design gameloops, which are not the same thing at all. And rishav_sharan is correct that it's nonetheless lovely, so thank you for linking it. It's interesting that, being from 2014, it uses a lot of patterns that would be completely imprudent (though still possible) in modern post-2015 Javascript, so on a line-by-line basis more than half the lines are not how I would recommend doing this today, while the approach is still totally perfect. Hard to believe, though, that that video has so few views/likes/comments, because she really nails it.