Right,... Very new to GS, just a quick Q from a newbie!

SaveDave

I have a really good idea for my first game. I'm the head of a graphic design dept of a publishing company so as far as design goes, I have this sorted.... My problem arises with my game I am setting out to make......

Is it possible to have a single timer running throughout my game even though my game changes to new screens for each "mini game" so to speak?..

Basically I want to time how long it takes for someone to complete a sequence...

Any help would be appreciated....

scitunes

There is a running clock no matter what. It is game.time and it starts the moment the app is loaded. You can access it any time.

EDIT: and it always runs even when you change scenes - it just keeps running until you close the app.

FatalCrest

It is possible just that you'd actually have to use timer and for every second add 1 or so to some attribute that counts your time and then every time you switch scenes, to reset the time just set your time attribute to 0 or such.

Create a real or integer attribute - Call it miniGameTimer or something

then with your handy dandy Timer Behavior:

Every 1 Seconds
miniGameTimer = miniGameTimer + whatever amount your using(ex. 0.1, 1, 0.01)

FatalCrest

or just do what scitunes said he has a better way Haha

SaveDave

Thanks scitunes, however, can I create a clock that starts when you "start" the game and runs through these scenes and stops when you "finish"

Ps. Sorry about the """"". It's the best way I can describe what I am trying to get across.

jstrahan

At start of play set attribute to game.time then just subtract that from current game.time to get time from start of play

scitunes

yep. so it will look like this

create an integer (if you are only concerned with full seconds) attribute called game.ClockOffset (or something like that).

Then in the button that starts the game or even just in the first scene have a behavior that says

change attribute game.ClockOffset to game.Time. Then All you need to do at anytime throughout the game is game.Time - game.ClockOffset and you will know how many seconds it has been since the person started the first scene.