Time count

[briannavon]

How do I make a game count the time in minutes that a players plays it so that I can put this:

You finished the demo in _____. Congrats!

[apricotorange]

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$ minutes, seconds = divmod(int(renpy.get_game_runtime()), 60)
"It took you [minutes] minutes and [seconds] seconds to finish this demo."

[briannavon]

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$ minutes, seconds = divmod(int(renpy.get_game_runtime()), 60)
"It took you [minutes] minutes and [seconds] seconds to finish this demo."

It does not seem to be counting the time played. No matter how long I play it, it says "It took you 0 minutes and 0 seconds to finish this demo."

[apricotorange]

That's strange... that exact code appears to work just fine for me.

[briannavon]

Can someone please help me with this

[Michiyo6918]

Strange... that same code works for me perfectly.

Can you show me the script where you put the code? Remember those two lines should be put at the end of your demo.

[briannavon]

It's fixed now! Thanks everybody!

[Michiyo6918]

It's fixed now! Thanks everybody!

That's good. Wish you luck on releasing the next demo of your game

[TrickWithAKnife]

I'm having a little trouble too.

Here is the exact code I'm using:

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label start:
    scene black
    "The timer should start from now"
    $ minutes, seconds = divmod(int(renpy.get_game_runtime()), 60)
    "Let this run for a bit"
    "Let it run a little more, so it uses time."
    "Ok, now let's see the result."
    "It took you [minutes] minutes and [seconds] seconds to finish this demo."

It seems to work, but only between "The timer should start from now." and "Let this run for a bit".
Is there any way to keep it running while other things happen? This code would be extremely useful to me if it could do that.

[TrickWithAKnife]

Nevermind, I figured it out too. I thought the timer started from the first line of code, not from when the game started, until I read Michiyo6918's message again.
I just set up a couple of variables to record the start of the timed section, and took that time away from the end of the timed section.

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    "The timer should start next"
    $ temp_minutes, temp_seconds = divmod(int(renpy.get_game_runtime()), 60)
    "The actual gameplay that you want to time should go here."
    $ temp_minutes2, temp_seconds2 = divmod(int(renpy.get_game_runtime()), 60)
    $ minutes = temp_minutes2 - temp_minutes
    $ seconds = temp_seconds2 - temp_seconds
    "It took you [minutes] minutes and [seconds] seconds to finish this demo."

[PyTom]

Note that that code is wrong, since you can wind up with a negative number of seconds. Your best bet is to subtract the seconds first, and then do the divmod.

[TrickWithAKnife]

I've been using this code in my game, because I just need it rounded to the closest minute:

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    $ temp_minutes2, temp_seconds2 = divmod(int(renpy.get_game_runtime()), 60) # To record the current gameplay time.
    $ minutes = temp_minutes2 - temp_minutes # To figure out how many minutes the search took.
    $ seconds = temp_seconds2 - temp_seconds # To figure out how many seconds the search took.
    if seconds > 30: # Rounding up to the nearest minute.
        $ minutes += 1
    if seconds < -30: # Strangely, sometimes the seconds show as negative numbers.  This will counteract that.
        $ minutes += 1
 

But I know people check these topics for their own problems, so maybe I should add the code other people would use.
I was a little confused about what you meant though, so I hacked together my own ugly way of doing it.

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    $ temp_minutes2, temp_seconds2 = divmod(int(renpy.get_game_runtime()), 60) # To record the current gameplay time.
    $ minutes = temp_minutes2 - temp_minutes # To figure out how many minutes the search took.
    if temp_seconds2 >= temp_seconds:
        $ seconds = temp_seconds2 - temp_seconds # To figure out how many seconds the search took.
    else:
        $ seconds = temp_seconds - temp_seconds2 # To figure out how many seconds the search took.
 

[Showsni]

PyTom means just get the raw runtime both times and only divmod it at the end if you want to put it into minutes.

$ firsttime = renpy.get_game_runtime()
"Lalala"
$ secondtime = renpy.get_game_runtime()
$ minutes, seconds = divmod(int(secondtime-firsttime), 60)