Clicks Per Second

AngryBoi

Hello there, I am currently making a Cookie Clicker style game. How could I make it so there is a clicks per second calculator? So far, all I have is every time I click it is plus one.

tatiang

Change attribute game.startTime (real) to game.Time

When Mouse Button is Down
     Change attribute game.clicks to game.clicks+1

Display Text
     game.clicks/(game.Time-game.startTime)

You may want to use the roundTo() function inside the Display Text expression. For example, roundTo(game.clicks/(game.Time-game.startTime),1).

Edit: when I tested this, it displayed nan (not a number) because it's dividing game.clicks by zero. I thought that would resolve when game.Time was greater than game.startTime but for some reason it doesn't. Possible workarounds are:

roundTo( game.clicks /( game.Time - game.startTime +.001),1)

or

Timer After 0.1 seconds
     Display Text
          game.clicks/(game.Time-game.startTime)

AngryBoi

Thanks , will try

AngryBoi

It is just displaying "nan" Anyone else know ho to do this?

AngryBoi

If you don't know what I mean, Cookie Clicker had one in their game. The CPS calculator at the top

tatiang

@BetweenTheWalls said:
It is just displaying "nan" Anyone else know ho to do this?

Yes, did you try either of the workarounds I mentioned?

AngryBoi

Typed in the first workaround wrong! Works now. Thanks.

AngryBoi

2 more quick questions. How can I make it round to the nearest whole number, and how can I make it so after 1 second, the counter goes back to zero? I can't figure them out.

Socks

@BetweenTheWalls said:
How can I make it round to the nearest whole number . . .

round(X) will round to the nearest whole number.

Example: round(45.224) = 45
Example: round(45.721) = 46

@BetweenTheWalls said:
and how can I make it so after 1 second, the counter goes back to zero?

Timer, after 1 second change the counter attribute to 0.

AngryBoi

@socks the number is rounding to the nearest decimal . Ex. 45.9 And I don't have a counter attribute.

AngryBoi

Never mind about my second statement. I made another attribute that is the same as the clicks.

Socks

@BetweenTheWalls said:
socks the number is rounding to the nearest decimal . Ex. 45.9

I'm not sure what this means, did you try my suggestion above ?

@BetweenTheWalls said:
And I don't have a counter attribute.

"how can I make it so after 1 second, the counter goes back to zero?"

What is this 'counter' you are referring to ?

AngryBoi

The "per second number"

AngryBoi

Okay guys, I don't need help with those anymore.

AngryBoi

How could I implement the words "Clicks per Second" before the numbers?

AngryBoi

@Tatiang After playing around with the clicks per second, I noticed after using it in-app for a while, the slower and slower it takes to go up from zero

tatiang

The math formula is essentially total clicks divided by total elapsed time so as more time goes by it gets harder to increase the value of the formula.

To concatenate or join text to an attribute or expression, use two periods: "Clicks per second: "..game.clicks/(game.Time-game.startTime). Note that to add spaces to an expression you'll have to hold down the option key when pressing the space key.

AngryBoi

Ok

AngryBoi

I guess I wasn't asking for the righ thing in my other discussion, but how would I make a clicks per second calculator like in Cookie Clicker?

ThoPel

I would

• save the timestamp for the first click
• count all clicks
• seconds = game.time - timestamp
• clicks per second = count(touch) / seconds

I would round the value seconds and clicks per second, but perhaps you need a exact value.

Armelline

This is the same question.

tatiang

I've merged these threads. Please don't start a new thread for the same issue.

Instead, provide more details about what you're trying to do. You asked for a "clicks per second calculator" and I provided a demo. Then you asked again for a "clicks per second calculator." You need to explain what you mean since the demo I provided isn't doing what you need. How do you want the clicks per second to be calculated? As an example, my demo (the same method as @ThoPel suggested) takes into account total clicks over the total duration. Maybe you want each second to have a separate calculation that gets reset on a timer? In that way, if you clicked 10 times the first second, it would show "Clicks per second: 10" but if you clicked 3 times the second second, it would show "Clicks per second: 3". Or is there some other way you want it to function?

AlchimiaStudios

Are you looking for a specific way to calculate/display it other then whats been laid out? Like highest clicks per second achieved vs actively updating clicks per second?

AngryBoi

Just look in the game Cookie Clicker. I don't want the calculator to get harder to raise as you play. I just want a calculator of how many clicks/points a second you are getting

Armelline

@BetweenTheWalls said:
Just look in the game Cookie Clicker. I don't want the calculator to get harder to raise as you play. I just want a calculator of how many clicks/points a second you are getting

The very first reply to your original thread, from @tatiang, tells you just how to do that.

RThurman

Maybe this thread will help:
http://forums.gamesalad.com/discussion/comment/530851/#Comment_530851

AngryBoi

@armelline it didn't work, the calculator got harder to move up the more you played

AngryBoi

Has anyone ever made a cookie clicker style game

RThurman

Try something like this.

AngryBoi

@RThurman Wow. Sincerely breathtaking. It works as if I was dwelling in heaven. Thank you to the bottom of my heart, wise man.

RThurman

Now there's a happy GameSalad customer!

This isn't really a clicks-per-second calculation. Clicks-per-second would imply rate -- which is what @tatiang was giving you.

Instead, this counts the number of clicks which occurred in the previous second. And it keeps restarting the count during every second.

One way to get clicks-per-second would be to add all the separate counts together and then divide by the number of elapsed seconds.