setInterval going too fast

Question

I\'m new to JS, and decided to start of learning by a making a small game. I am using a setInterval to automate the enemy\'s attack. For their first attack the interval is corre

Answer 1

You keep calling 'setInterval' again again. Each call is running in parallel.

If you have more than one warrior peer type (archer, knight, etc), create an array that will have a separate set interval for each.

If, as seems the case, you only have one and they play at random each turn, add clearInterval before every setInterval

Answer 2

you should never use setInterval for animations!

Just use requestAnimationFrame instead!

• https://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Web/API/window.requestAnimationFrame
• http://www.paulirish.com/2011/requestanimationframe-for-smart-animating/
• http://css-tricks.com/using-requestanimationframe/