I'm making a circle grow by simply increasing its radius. However, I want it to grow slower than +1 per frame. I'm doing this now by making a counter var for the circle, checking it against a frame timer and then moving on. I end up using this method a lot for various things and that makes me believe there is a better way.

This method clearly works but is there some sort of shorthand or anything I can do to get the same result?

circle={x=64,y=64,r=1,t=0,f=3}

function _update()
    if circle.t>=circle.f then
        circle.r+=1
        circle.t=0
    end

    circle.t+=1

end

function _draw()
    circ(circle.x, circle.y, circle.r, 10)
end

Try just incrementing by less than 1! The draw functions generally deal when you throw them non-integers. There are cases where it can yield jitter or unevenness, but then you just drop in a flr().

circle={x=64,y=64,r=1,t=0,f=3}

function _update()

    circle.r+=0.2

end

function _draw()
  circ(circle.x, circle.y, circle.r, 10)
end

edit: insert caveat about habits and strongly typed languages or something along those lines

Good point. Didn't really think about that...guess in my brain the P8 just deals with integers since that's how the pixels end up working but you're right. I'll give it a shot. Thanks!

You can call flip() which will end the frame cycle giving you essentially 15 fps, but that's pretty much the limit.

Just throw a flip() to slow down the loop.