Just on a practical note.. do you know how BIG a number 65,536 really is..?
How fast do "boxes get eatten by Enemies"..?
If we take PacMan as a known example (which is probably faster than your game eats its boxes), it appears that 3 dots get eaten per second (wacka, wacka, wacka).
Now, assuming a PacMan could eat a continuous line of dots with no pauses for level changes, avoiding ghosts or bathroom breaks, 65,536 divided by 3 dots per second means it would take approximately 21845 seconds to eat all 65,536 dots.
That translates to 364 minutes, or approximately 6.07 hours of continuous play.
If your game only eats 1 box per second, multiply that by three.. or over 18 hours of playtime on a single game before you'd run out of 65,536 handles.
Just one of those things that makes you go hmmmmm....
How fast do "boxes get eatten by Enemies"..?
If we take PacMan as a known example (which is probably faster than your game eats its boxes), it appears that 3 dots get eaten per second (wacka, wacka, wacka).
Now, assuming a PacMan could eat a continuous line of dots with no pauses for level changes, avoiding ghosts or bathroom breaks, 65,536 divided by 3 dots per second means it would take approximately 21845 seconds to eat all 65,536 dots.
That translates to 364 minutes, or approximately 6.07 hours of continuous play.
If your game only eats 1 box per second, multiply that by three.. or over 18 hours of playtime on a single game before you'd run out of 65,536 handles.
Just one of those things that makes you go hmmmmm....