So, I've got a game in the pipeline.
There's a problem, tho. After a couple of weeks of lunch hours incrementally adding stuff, it's regularly using up 100% of my CPU and slowing down. I don't really know how to go about debugging what part of the application is using all those resources.
I've particularly noticed that if you restart the map, (by pressing r or falling in water) a few times, the resource issue gets much worse.
Possible issues:
It's loading quite a lot of assets in /js/loader.js
The collision method on the platforms group (interaction.landOnPlatform) is being called many times a second. Although that steps over most functionality when 3 flags are false.
landOnPlatform: function (player, platform) {
if (platform.breakable) {
interaction.breakPlatform(player, platform);
}
if (player.slamming) {
player.slamming = false;
action.shakeCamera();
}
if (player.jumping) {
if (player.body.onFloor()) {
audio.play_land();
player.jumping = false;
} else if (player.body.onCeiling()) {
audio.play_sfx('head_block')
}
}
},
There's also quite a lot of objects being created by map.draw (reading a file from /maps/
Because of the repeated reloading exacerbating the issue, could it be that this block in map.draw is not removing all the objects and their interactions from memory?
platforms.clear(true, true);
doors.clear(true, true);
water.clear(true, true);
keys.clear(true, true);
springs.clear(true, true);
sliders.clear(true, true);
slider_tracks.clear(true, true);
The full code base is here:
https://github.com/AJFaraday/night_and_day
I'm really looking for advice on how to find this issue, or more information on exactly what and where the issue is.
Please be kind, I'm a ruby developer playing in JavaScript, so this isn't my first language.