This should help:

https://www.scirra.com/tutorials/73/sup ... reen-sizes

https://www.scirra.com/tutorials/1126/m ... le-devices

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My structure is the following:

1 Sprite for the player (invisible, used only for collision) + 1 Sprite for the player's animations

(since the player will have a lot of sprites + skins I will use a different sprite from the other objects)

1 Sprite for the objects in the game and for enemies (invisible, used only for collision) + 1 Sprite for animations

1 Sprite for the level's layout

1 Sprite for the onscreen buttons/gamepad

1 Sprite for HUD and other elements

1 Sprite for the elements in the Main Menu

...etc

While I still use several sprites for the animations, I grouped them and pick them using a variable named "ID".

Just to make sure, draw calls are made every tick, not just only when a sprite changes frame/animation ?

rexrainbow

Based on performance, which method would be better ?

jayderyu

From what I understand, draw calls are made only for visible objects ... So I can make the logic of my game using more invisible objects and use only 1 sprite with all the animations for the visuals.

Can you explain me more about "management of layering" ... How can I measure the draw calls to be sure I am in the "safe zone" ?

Also can you answer me my other 2 questions:

Creating and destroying objects (one at a time) can create junk memory or some slowness ?

Creating the level object by object at the start of the layout from a .json file will have an impact over the performance ?

Here is a very alpha version of the game: http://tinyurl.com/blocks191

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Anyone ?

From what I know, Google Play is available only on Android, like how Game Center is available only on iOS.

Which method is better to use ?

• one single sprite with different animations and all the behaviors (activated only the needed ones)
• multiple sprites (each with only one animation) and the behaviors needed

In other words:

Sprite 1 (animation 1 out of 4 // 1 behavior activated // 3 behaviors deactivated)

Sprite 1 (animation 2 out of 4 // 2 behaviors activated // 2 behaviors deactivated)

Sprite 1 (animation 3 out of 4 // 3 behaviors activated // 1 behavior deactivated)

Sprite 1 (animation 4 out of 4 // 4 behaviors activated // 0 behaviors deactivated)

VS

Sprite 1 (1 animation // 1 behavior (activated))

Sprite 2 (1 animation // 2 behaviors (all activated))

Sprite 3 (1 animation // 3 behaviors (all activated))

Sprite 4 (1 animation // 4 behaviors (all activated))

The game will be for mobiles, so I want to squeeze all the performance I can get (and yeah, I know about https://www.scirra.com/blog/83/optimisa ... -your-time )

I'm asking this because I noticed that the animations of a single object are exported in one image, while animations for different objects are exported in multiple image files.

Also, I have another 2 small questions:

Creating and destroying objects (one at a time) can create junk memory or some slowness ?

Creating the level object by object at the start of the layout from a .json file will have an impact over the performance ?

> "On Jump" is triggered only in the first frame when the player starts to jump

> "Is Jumping" is triggered every frame while the player is jumping

>

Then would "is jumping - trigger once" be the same as "on Jump"?

Yes

"On Jump" is triggered only in the first frame when the player starts to jump

"Is Jumping" is triggered every frame while the player is jumping