Recommended FPS

[Hurdarr]

Greetings. I would like to know your average fps you have for your games.

Is 30 a good number for a game with just some movie clips?

[bluemagica]

yeh, i suggest make your game at 30, cause if you make it at 60 and get fluid gameplay, that means another machine at lower config may run it at 30 and get extremely crappy gameplay!

But its better if you make your game independent of the fps, since the fps won't stay constant everywhere! 8bitrockets site has some really good info on this, so read up!

[tonypa]

30-40 should work fine.

[Alluvian]

For an action based game, I much prefer games that run at a constant speed, not a constant framerate.

There are functions out there you can stick in your main ENTER_FRAME loop that will calculate a variable often called gameTime or gameTimer that you can use with all your movement code so that as your framerate changes, the speed of objects stay the same. They just move more or less distance each frame based on the time elapsed since the last frame. It makes your game FEEL like it has a rock-solid framerate. You just have to watch out to make sure your actual frames never drop TOO low or you can have collision issues.

I believe I got the code I used from 8bitrockets like bluemagica suggested.

[Hurdarr]

Yah I know, but for now that's a little out of my league.