Is it possible to make a label playable only once a day?

[Nanahs]

I created a "special menu" on my game.
I was thinking of adding an option (button) called like "Read Today's luck", something like this.
When you clicked, you would play a label that would show you a message.
Something like "It's a good day to send flowers to Anna." I'd make many different labels and the game choose them randomly, so there would be different messages.

That's easy to make.

The thing is: I wanted this label playble only once a day.
When you tried clicking there again, a message like "You've already read today's luck. Come back tomorrow." would appear.

Only in the next day, after midnight, the person you be able to read another "luck message" by clicking there.

It is possible to make on Renpy?
I don't remember reading about a code like this at all.
This is just something that came to my mind now.

ps: for a newbie, I always want to to difficult things. Sorry

Thanks.

[Imperf3kt]

I am assuming you mean in real time?

While I don't have time to write the code, I have an idea about the logic.

Create a screen with the python date time module.
Assign the current day, month and year to a variable when the screen is shown.
Make a button in that screen that checks the time variable, sets a different time variable then checks if the two variables are the same.
If they aren't, give the player their reward, and increment the day variable by one


I had a better idea, but since I am writing this during my free moments at work, I got busy and lost thought of it.

[deltadidirac]

I'm completly new with renpy, but perhaps this example I create could give you an idea and you could write better than me.

general variable msg assignement:

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default readluckval = 0

variable day assignement:

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default dayval = 1  ##1= monday, 2= tuesday , ecc..

example of the engine msg

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label  engine_luck:
          if readluckval ==0 and dayval ==1:
               jump yourmsgengine  ### here you call your casual msg
          elif readreadluckval ==1 and dayval ==1
                jump messagereaded   ### here you call you msg that you have already read the day msg
          elif readluckval ==0 and dayval ==2:
          	jump yourmsgengine  ### here you call your casual msg
          elif readluckval ==1 and dayval ==2:
          	jump messagereaded   ### here you call you msg that you have already read the day msg
          elif ..... #### continue for all the 7 days

in your system engine timer, you must write at the end and change of every day
this operation to reset the readluckval:

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$ readluckval *=0

all this it's only a suggest, I'm sure all can be write better , perhaps using some screen and not labels

see you

[Andredron]

http://renpyfordummies.blogspot.com/2018/10/2.html?m=1

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[Nanahs]

Thank you SO much guys! I'll give it a try

[recreation]

I'm not a pro but the simpliest thing I could think of if you DON'T want to make this depending on realtime, is you could simply add a variable that stores if the messages was read and reset it every day:

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if message_read==0:
	"Lucky Message"
	$ message_read = 1
else:
	"You've already read today's luck. Come back tomorrow."

label next_day:
	$ message_read = 0

[Nanahs]

I'm not a pro but the simpliest thing I could think of if you DON'T want to make this depending on realtime, is you could simply add a variable that stores if the messages was read and reset it every day:

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if message_read==0:
	"Lucky Message"
	$ message_read = 1
else:
	"You've already read today's luck. Come back tomorrow."

label next_day:
	$ message_read = 0

I want to make it based on real time.
But I'm going to test this one too, to see what it would look like.
Thanks.