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A conceptual question

Asked by priyendra in Game Programming, 3D Graphics Software

Hi all!

Well, I think I understand the basic game loop. In an infinite loop, you update the position of your objects, you render, you update, you render ...

However, what I do not understand is that how does this tie in with all the other things that are there in a game. Most games have some sort of an intro, have a menu interface and the game itself. So is the game loop running even when the user is interacting with the menus? Or does the execution model change when the user is in the menu part?

I am asking this because I am myself working on a game. The work is at a stage where as soon as I run the executable, the application enters the game loop and the game starts. I want the user to first see a menu and the game should start only when the user instructs it to. Also I want to provide a host of other options in the menu. What is the standard way to do this??

Also, most commercial games have very stylish menus. They have custom GUIs (drop downs, text boxes etc). Are these elements hand coded or are they somehow derived from the base Windows GUI elements? And if they are hand coded, are there any free libraries that will help newbie game developers to put decent looking menus in their games?

Thanks in advance
-- Priyendra

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A conceptual question

Asked by priyendra in Game Programming, 3D Graphics Software

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