Hey there,
I’ve just finished the “Getting Started” guide and was trying to get the game a bit more hard to play
So i’ve reduced the gameLoopTimer = timer.performWithDelay( 500, gameLoop, 0 ) to 250
And was actually wondering if there’s a way to keep decreasing that value based on the Score, in a way that the higher the player score is the faster the asteroids respawn.
Have tried to do this via the “if/then” command, but had no luck doing so …
Thanks in advance !
Instead of using a timer, use an enterFrame listener which checks the time elapsed since the last spawn on every frame, comparing system.getTimer() against the last spawn time. When it reaches your threshold ( which you can also decrease over time to increase difficulty), launch the spawn function and store the spawn time.
First all thank you for your tips nick ! I’ll try all those tips today and come back with my results
Do you have any extra information concerning these commands? i’ve been trying to apply them on my actual code and I haven’t been able to recreate the same thing my Timer does right now and add a kind of evolution in the parameters 
Something like this:
[lua]
local threshold = 500
local reduce = 0.01
local lastSpawn = system.getTimer()
local spawnFunction = function ()
print (“SPAWN CODE HERE”)
end
local gameLoop = function ()
local t = system.getTimer()
if t - lastSpawn > threshold then
spawnFunction()
lastSpawn = system.getTimer()
end
threshold = threshold - reduce
end
Runtime:addEventListener(“enterFrame”, gameLoop)
[/lua]
Instead of using a timer, use an enterFrame listener which checks the time elapsed since the last spawn on every frame, comparing system.getTimer() against the last spawn time. When it reaches your threshold ( which you can also decrease over time to increase difficulty), launch the spawn function and store the spawn time.
First all thank you for your tips nick ! I’ll try all those tips today and come back with my results
Do you have any extra information concerning these commands? i’ve been trying to apply them on my actual code and I haven’t been able to recreate the same thing my Timer does right now and add a kind of evolution in the parameters
Something like this:
[lua]
local threshold = 500
local reduce = 0.01
local lastSpawn = system.getTimer()
local spawnFunction = function ()
print (“SPAWN CODE HERE”)
end
local gameLoop = function ()
local t = system.getTimer()
if t - lastSpawn > threshold then
spawnFunction()
lastSpawn = system.getTimer()
end
threshold = threshold - reduce
end
Runtime:addEventListener(“enterFrame”, gameLoop)
[/lua]