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Helicopter Game using HTML5 (Canvas / font-face etc)

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Re: Helicopter Game using HTML5 (Canvas / font-face etc)

#44
post #24

Fun game and impressive script! Personally, the game was too fast (speed wise) in Chrome. However, FireFox and Safari 5 played at a much more reasonable speed. While, I was expecting the speed to be a bit slower in FireFox, I was curious about the difference between Chrome and Safari (a V8 vs SquirrelFish difference...??)

> javascript:alert(Heli.FPS=10);

obviously just swap 10 for your desired FPS

Re: Helicopter Game using HTML5 (Canvas / font-face etc)

#49
post #3

You need to tweak the speed - this is completely unplayable on my Macbook with 4GB of RAM and an SSD hard drive. Copter crashes in a second before I can do anything. But looks cool!

thats strange, its a fixed and low framerate and it isnt maxing any cpu so it shouldnt really get any faster on a faster machine. I have been told between this and pacman that I make the games a little fast, but I do like them on the fast side.

For what it's worth, I've tried this in Safari 5 on my Mac, and Chrome on my linux box, and it is indeed the same speed...
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