Do loops work on the player?

Pulp
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1

As the title states, I'm trying to run a loop on the player. I'm testing this simple script to see if it's possible but nothing is being written at the coordinates. Looking through the documentation is unhelpful — any ideas?

     on loop do
         label "LOOP" at 0,0
     end
2

I figured this out, label only works on the draw event, but question still is do loops work on the player and what's the best way to declare and use them

3

loop is an event that only works in event.game and is called in every frame similar to draw. Personally, I don't useloop too much because I don't want to have too many functions on every frame plus draw lets me use exclusive functions like draw, label , hide and window but It's pretty useful for running things in the background at all times like playtime.

4

As @MintFerret notes, loop is called on the game script. I find it useful to move code out of the game script as much as I can though, so I often do something like this:

// in game
on loop do
  tell event.player to
    call "game_loop"
  end
end

// in player
on game_loop do
 ... whatever ...
end

And the same approach for calling the loop event on the current room (event.room) - if the room or player script doesn't have a game_loop handler, it doesn't matter.

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