Good evening,

I have a simple dilemma, i cannot solve myself. Or rather, make up my mind.

I am making a game for both desktop and android devices. In my first game i was using "fps based movement". Which resulted game to run faster on some devices, due to the fact that not every device was running it on 60 fps.

I don't want to make same mistake, because this time it's not a puzzle game and its more action orientated.

But "distance traveled per time" is double edged sword. If device lags for 3 seconds, i might get dead.

Other option i thought of, hardcap FPS to 30. But then... how do i manage stuff like "buffs" and etc?... base them on time or frames passed?

Anyone could give me advice?

updates_per_second = 40
ticks_per_update = ticks_per_second / updates_per_second
time_per_update = 1 / updates_per_second 
accumulator = 0

while window_opened():
    accumulator += elapsed_ticks()

    while accumulator > ticks_per_update:
        game.update(time_per_update)
        accumulator -= ticks_per_update
    
    # interpolation is between 0 (previous state) and 1 (current state)
    interpolation = accumulator / ticks_per_update  

    game.render( interpolation )

# Somewhere in the game:
function object.draw(interp):
    interp_pos = (current_position - previous_position) * interp + previous_position

    draw(this, interp_pos)

But "distance traveled per time" is double edged sword. If device lags for 3 seconds, i might get dead.

    # if updating falls behind, sacrifice a few updates and accept lag
    if accumulator / ticks_per_update > 3:
        accumulator %= ticks_per_update

Other option i thought of, hardcap FPS to 30. But then... how do i manage stuff like "buffs" and etc?... base them on time or frames passed?

Cheers and thanks!