Thanks for the write-up. Always cool to see how different people solve these kind of problems.
I don't know much about cocos2d but since the dots are purely visual, do they need to be game objects? Couldn't you keep their transform in a separate data structure which you can update independently and pass to a shader (or similar) for rendering? I'm thinking something similar to how particles in VFX are usually done.
I don't know much about cocos2d but since the dots are purely visual, do they need to be game objects? Couldn't you keep their transform in a separate data structure which you can update independently and pass to a shader (or similar) for rendering? I'm thinking something similar to how particles in VFX are usually done.