How do I run game continuity at browser minimize?

The game is paused when browse minimize or switch to other web page. How do I run the game continuity in these cases?

You can't - browsers deliberately stop running hidden web pages to reduce CPU usage and save battery life on mobile devices. I don't think it's possible to work around, sorry.

I think a trick you can use is to store the time 5 seconds (so you don't need to know when the browser is stopped), then when the game resumes and the time saved is greater than 5 seconds, you can speed things up to how they would be if the game kept running.

Although, this would only be good for sim and RTS games probably.

On the other hand, it's irritating as a player to switch the tab away, and come back and you've died because the game carried on while you weren't looking. IMO, it's actually a useful feature it pauses while you're not looking.

The player can always create a new window with a single tab - that might work to keep it running.

On the other hand, it's irritating as a player to switch the tab away, and come back and you've died because the game carried on while you weren't looking. IMO, it's actually a useful feature it pauses while you're not looking.

The player can always create a new window with a single tab - that might work to keep it running.

Yeah, dying while away is lame. I was thinking of sim games like Smurfs where it says "Building complete in 2 hours".

In that case, I guess you could compare the actual time when the building start to be built and set the finishing time to that starting time + building time.

That way doesn't matter if the game pauses or not.

But keep in mind that players could cheat changing their own pc clock.

If you could compare to a web clock somewhere, this would be avoided.

Anyway, it's just an idea.

I think Chrome pauses, and Firefox starts running one tick every second (1 fps) to give the app a chance to stay up to date. For games it's not very useful though - in the latest releases of C2, if it spots it's going at 1 FPS it sets dt to 0, effectively pausing the game (so long as your game is framerate independent).