Click here to play Super Rawr-Type Redux Source Code: https://github.com/DaveVoyles/Super-Rawr-Type-Redux I’ve spent the last 3 months working on the follow up to my previous game, Super Rawr-Type. It was a simple side scrolling 2D shmup, which I wrote in JavaScript and also ported to Windows 8. One bug prevents me from getting it into the store,…
For the past two weeks I’ve been trying to perfect object pooling with ImpactJS in order to increase performance for my Win8 port of Super Rawr-Type. You can find the latest (working) Win8 build of Super Rawr-Type on my GitHub. I finally created a version of object pooling for my bullets and enemy bullets which…
My code for object pooling is now working 100%! It took me about one week to get it straight, but after taking quite a bit of time to really learn the concept of pooling in-and-out, as well as some of the less frequently used functions offered by arrays (at least, not frequently used by myself),…
[UPDATE] Clarified that I have two classes for my bullet. One which uses pooling, and another that does not use pooling. So my object pooling optimizations don’t seem to be working. I thought I would have seen some improvements in terms of my performance, but I’m just not seeing it. I think one issue is…