Tracking FPS and scaling game on the fly

charlieaf92

It seems that the vision of my game exceeds the iPhones hardware (at least using GS). I am considering working on a system that monitors the FPS and removes enemy actors based on the framerate - to avoid chugging on different devices configurations.

Has anyone done anything like this in the past? Just curious how it worked out.

charlie

scitunes

Not really, but I have put a system in place that simple limits the number of an enemy. I set the limit based on what I saw in the Gs preview. So I played the game in the viewer with no limit and then watched the FPS and determined what I could live with. then I did this:

----In the enemy actor
change game.NumberOfEnemies to game.NumberOfEnemies + 1

Rule when overlaps with bullet
change game.NumberOfEnemies to game.NumberOfEnemies - 1

----In the spawner
Rule: when game.NumberOfEnemies is < 30
Timer Every Random(2,6)
Spawn enemy

Just change the 30 to whatever works for you (it will depend on how rule the enemy actor is).