How to show the day and the week?

[willanik]

Hi guys,

I need some help. I am setting up a game where the story runs over several weeks.

The player goes to sleep at the end of each day so it will be easy to set up a 'day' variable that increases by 1 on the sleep action. Up at the top of my game screen I would really like to show the week number (week 1, week 2 etc) and the day (ideally as Monday, Tuesday etc).

I have seen other games that do this sort of thing but I cannot find a tutorial or any other advice on how it is set up. I know there is a fancy calendar available that has actual months and even new moons but I think that is more then I need

Can someone direct me to a guide or another good source of information?

Many thanks.

[Hijiri]

Here's a rough example of what you want since I have something similar in a little private project I've played around with:

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define gamedays = {
        "default" : ["chap/day 0.png"],
        "D-0" : ["chap/day 0.png"],
        "D-1" : ["chap/day 1.png"],
        "D-2" : ["chap/day 2.png"],
        "D-3" : ["chap/day 3.png"],
        "D-4" : ["chap/day 4.png"],
        "D-5" : ["chap/day 5.png"],
        "D-6" : ["chap/day 6.png"],.
        }
define gamechapter = {
        "default" : ["chap/ch 0.png"],
        "CH-0" : ["chap/ch 0.png"],
        "CH-1_1" : ["chap/ch 1_1.png"],
        "CH-1_2" : ["chap/ch 1_2.png"],
        "CH-1_3" : ["chap/ch 1_3.png"],
        "CH-1_4" : ["chap/ch 1_4.png"],
        "CH-1_5" : ["chap/ch 1_5.png"],
        "CH-1_6" : ["chap/ch 1_6.png"],
        "CH-1_7" : ["chap/ch 1_7.png"],
        "CH-0_u" : ["chap/ch 0_u.png"],
        }
screen daychap:
    add "chap/chapbase.png" xalign 1.0 yalign 0
    #The part on top is a background
    for d in current_gameday:
        add d:
            pos (0, 0)
    for d in current_gamechapter:
        add d:
            pos (217, 0)
##This part below is in your script, where
$ current_gameday = gamedays["D-0"]
$ current_gamechapter = gamechapter["CH-0"]
show screen daychap
##And now down here goes your script.

[willanik]

Thanks Hijiri! I'll use this as a start and see how I go.

W