Time Solved!

[Hotaru Shizuka]

Okay, I'm making a date sim and I was wondering if anyone knew how to put a time limit on the overall game, like, you have to get a guy by thirty days or you will lose the game, how do you do that? also I was wondering if anyone knew how to put in day names instead of "Day 1".

[EternalDream]

How about just end the game on Day 30 and if the player doesn't get a guy, you write a message saying that they lost? Then after lead them back to the main menu so that they can replay it if they want.

[Hotaru Shizuka]

okay, but I wanted to add the days of the week, and I know I can end the game on day 30, but I don't know how to do it.

[EternalDream]

Oh... sorry, I didn't read your question properly >.< Adding dates is in the RenPy FAQ, right here

[Hotaru Shizuka]

okay, thank you, now how do I do the event when they lose?

[KimiYoriBaka]

variables. you need them.

for anything you'd like to keep track of during a game just make a new variable for it. if you want to know how many days have gone by without hard coding each day, make a variable called "days" or something and add one to it at the beginning of each day. If you want to keep track of the day of the week, make a variable called "day_of_week" starting with whatever number you associate with the starting day, and reset it at the end of the week.

if you need both you can use the same variable for both with just a little math. for example, if your game starts on monday:

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show_date = True
day = 1
def day_of_week(day):
    n = day % 7
    if n == 0:
        return "Sunday"
    if n == 1:
        return "Monday"
    if n == 2:
        return "Tuesday"
    if n == 3:
        return "Wednesday"
    if n == 4:
        return "Thursday"
    if n == 5:
        return "Friday"
    if n == 6:
        return "Saturday"

def date_overlay():
    if show_date:
        ui.text("Day " + day + " " + day_of_week(day), size=20, color="#ffffff")

config.overlay_functions.append(date_overlay)

[Hotaru Shizuka]

cool, thank you.