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by emj 1409 days ago
I ran this full screen and let other people play. Some notes:

It's a really easy game if you have a slow computer, the physics has to be separated from the graphics.

Add a splash screen with the "Rocket drone" name when you die so it's easier to know what's being played.

The instructions for using P and Q was not obvious for three people who tried it. (non native speakers and children). N=5

Fun as a fast game or as a slow game.

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Thanks for the user test :) I updated the game loop to be separate from the rendering loop. Any chance you can tell me if it is still slow?
Sorry no change, but on smaller maps it has better speed. So obviously a CPU issue or something.
It seems like since I first tried the game, it's gotten really slow on my machine, which is very odd, considering that it's a desktop ryzen 9 with 16 cores and a beefy graphics card. Weirdly, it still runs fast (and is consequently much more difficult) on my laptop.

Just tried it on my son's machine, which is the same hardware as mine (but running Windows rather than Linux, both of us using Brave for browsing) and it's fast there too. On my machine, even the clock rendering is dramatically slower than real-time; I'm not sure what's going on.