Learning to Crawl - Understanding update ticks

This post is included for posterity. It was originally posted in my now-defunct Discord server.

I managed to get a rudimentary day/night cycle set up along with a "safe zone" and therefore a lose/survive condition.

Only trouble is, it was incredibly unreliable due to fluctuations in frame time meaning my messages were missing the 1-per-second cutoff.

It wasn't until days later I realized I should only be using the rounded output for the display - all my other checks should be done every frame.

Next time I work on it I'll take all of the game state checks out of the rounded clock and if it all works as intended I can develop the idea further:

• Going from binary death to a gradient of danger.

I would also like to set up the lighting to the Time of Day and I want to simulate the spherical nature of the planet by introducing a new scalar that tracks where on the "globe" they are- expediting or delaying the dawn.