Making a Real-time Game

[mapletaffy]

Hello,

Is there a way (or is it even possible) to "fetch" the local system time so it can trigger the events in-game for a real-time effect? I made a fake code as an example:

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start
get.systemlocaltime
if systemlocaltime >=1:00 jump midnight
if systemlocaltime >=7:00 jump morning
if systemlocaltime >=18:00 jump evening

label midnight:
renpy.random.events(("event1", "event2", "event3"))
event1:
"What are you doing here? It's already midnight"
event2:
"zZzZzZzZ"
event3:
"Hey, Why are you still awake?"

label morning
renpy.random.events(("event1", "event2", "event3"))
event1:
"Hi. Good morning."
event2:
"Can we go to school together?"
event3:
"zZzZzZz"

label evening:
renpy.random.events(("event1", "event2", "event3"))
event1:
"I'm sleepy. . ."
event2:
"I'm eating dinner right now."
event3:
"Good night!"

Thank you so much!

[netravelr]

Well,

Python has a system called datetime (http://docs.python.org/2/library/datetime.html) but I don't know anything RenPy has by default has time settings. Hopefully this'll work out for you if you read it carefully.

Cheers!

[PyTom]

The time settings are taking out of the OS, so assuming the OS has correct time, the various datetime function should work without problem.

You can also use time.time() if all you need is seconds since January 1st, 1970 midnight UTC - which is a surprisingly useful thing to need.

[mapletaffy]

Oh, I see. Thank you for all the information!