Ebiten on the server

[wizzymore]

This might sound dumb but can i run ebiten without creating a window and having it call the draw function? Something like in unity with the -nographics flag?

I want to keep the logic you guys made for the game loop, how it is called and when and i don't want to re-create this part for the server.

[galsjel]

That's a lot of overhead to maintain an infinite for loop. Since it's server side and you don't want any window logic.

package main

import (
	"log"
	"time"
)

const target_tps = 50

func main() {
	ticker := time.NewTicker(time.Second / target_tps)
	for {
		<-ticker.C
		update()
	}
}

func update() {
	log.Println("update")
}

[superloach]

something akin to this?

// client.go
//go:build client
func (g *Game) Draw(screen *ebiten.Image) {
    // ...
}
func main() {
    ebiten.Run(&Game{})
}

// server.go
//go:build server
func (g *Game) Draw(screen *ebiten.Image) {}
func main() {
    g := &Game{}
    for _ := range time.Tick(time.Second/60) {
        g.Update()
    }
}

or does ebiten require graphics even if Run is not called..?