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Should the player be static for an infinite runner game?
I have heard from many people that if you are making an infinite runner type game, which I am making, the player should be static. Why is this?
In endless runner games, it's easier to move the world, not the player. So, since the player won't be moving, you could make it static.
how is it easier? will not making the player static affect the user's experience?
Imagine, the player is moving forwards or in any other direction, right? Taking the player's position into account and instantiating an object accurately based on it isn't pleasant to do, not when you can just instantiate a chunk of the world and just move that. And making a single object static won't have a big or even noticeable effect on the user's experience.
Not necessarily. Watch this video. 3:19 he talks about the framerate issues related to moving the World instead of the player:
