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#1 2012-08-03 18:08:52

garygreen
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Registered: 2012-05-26
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Speed of game play

Hi
In the Scratch editor I noticed that if you play your game in the presentation mode it runs faster than if you're playing it in a mode that displays the blocks palette, scripts area & sprite list. If I upload my game to the Scratch site, is it more likely to run at the faster or slower speed?
Thanks - Gary

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#2 2012-08-03 18:18:22

Mokat
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Re: Speed of game play

It depends on if the person playing it is using flash player or java player or if they're using Turbo mode or not.


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#3 2012-08-03 18:26:42

Wes64
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Re: Speed of game play

presentation mode = flash player speed (roughly)


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#4 2012-08-03 18:35:31

BoltBait
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Re: Speed of game play

Wes64 wrote:

presentation mode = flash player speed (roughly)

Not. Even. Close.

In the game I'm developing right now, I find the flash player to be 10x faster then the development environment's full-screen mode.

It really varies based upon the type of project and the scripts you're using.

The best way to be sure is to upload the game and test it.


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#5 2012-08-04 07:10:04

garygreen
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Re: Speed of game play

Thanks Mokat, Wes64 & Boltbait for the replies. I just tried a couple of my existing games in the Java and Flash players and noticed the difference in speed. Flash so much faster. I also noticed that they are buggy in the Java player too!
Thanks - I'm off to upload another game. :-)

Gary

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