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Project R [Rhythm Experiment]

Flash Experiment – Creating Rhythm (1/3)

July 6, 2009

Rock Band 2

The Preamble & Problem

Say you wanted to create a rhythm game in Flash along the lines of Guitar Hero, Rock Band, or, my favourite, Parappa the Rappa. You’d need a method of maintaining a beat.

Two main problems keep this in the realm of annoying.

  1. Flash can’t be trusted to keep a constant framerate.
  2. Flash can’t be trusted to fire a Timer() event at a consistent rate.

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