Forums » Help » How to allow app to call me, and how to exit the game loop

Hi folks:

Seasoned game dev, but new to Impact and JavaScript.

I need our game to be launched from another person's code. I did the following to defer the initialization of our game, but I'm not sure it is the recommended way:

launch: function() 
    {
    // need to load modules so we have "MyGame" ready
    ig._execModules();  
    ig.main('#canvas', MyGame, 30, 1024, 768, 1);
    }

Similarly, I need to exit the game loop and return to my caller. What is the correct procedure to do this?

Thanks!

You can probably bake the impact game (which you should be doing) and then call

ig.system.setGame(MyGame);

to start the game.

To end the game loop I would use

ig.system.stopRunLoop();
//then your code as the game as stopped running (hide canvas ect...)

Thanks - looking into the .setGame idea now.

However, regarding ig.system.StopRunLoop(), my understanding is that just pauses the game loop. It doesn't "exit"- that is clean up all references and leave the game essentially garbage-collectable.

Have you found a solution in the last 5 months Matthew?
I am looking to call my game from another application and return to it at the end of the level but I can't seem to find much help on how...
If you became a wizard over the last few months, I'm also looking to re-enter the game on a new level from a different point of the application. If you happen to know a way to do that I would appreciate it as well.