How to lock game for X mins?

Gamer2125

Hello,

I am creating a game which will have a feature where if user loses all their lives, they will have to wait for X mins. Can anyone help how to create this feature for my game?

tylerglessner

Let me just say that restricting players from...well..playing, will not go over well in the end

tatiang

Let me just say that restricting players from...well..playing, will not go over well in the end

Although with the right IAP pricing structure, this could make bank!*

There are multiple ways to do this but I recommend using a Pause Game behavior. That will overlay another scene and you can just keep track of the time with a time stamp:

When game.lives <= 0
     change game.timeStamp (real) to game.Time + 5*60
     Pause Game

Then on the pause scene, have an actor with this rule:
When game.time >= game.timeStamp
     Unpause Game

*I get so tired of this type of IAP use...

Gamer2125

Thank you for your comments and suggestions This definitely helped.