Use a projection matrix and simply offset the origins thus preventing the need to recalculate the position of every object every frame. In fact you could use the same method in most tile based games where you'd chuck all the tiles into a static vertex array (static since the tiles don't need to move) and move the view (camera) around.
Help with viewports
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