is there a function that counts the played time per session?

[abeplaga]

Hi! I just discovered that there is a variable that counts the game time (renpy.get_game_runtime), and I wondered if there is a variable that stores how long a game has been running in a play session. In other words, that count the time everytime the player runs the executable of the game.

If there isn't, how could it be created? Maybe a screen with a timer that adds a second to the variable every second? ... but I think it's a bit wrong :s

[philat]

get_game_runtime IS per session.

[abeplaga]

get_game_runtime IS per session.

I've done tests and no, it starts counting from the moment you enter the script and stays stored in the saves.

I ask for a function that counts from the moment the player executes the .exe of the game and always starts at 0.

[Remix]

There isn't one natively (not as far as I know anyway)

You could just reset the game_runtime wherever you want though with renpy.clear_game_runtime(), e.g.

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label splashscreen():
    $ renpy.clear_game_runtime()
    return

[abeplaga]

There isn't one natively (not as far as I know anyway)

You could just reset the game_runtime wherever you want though with renpy.clear_game_runtime(), e.g.

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label splashscreen():
    $ renpy.clear_game_runtime()
    return

I tried it with but doesn't work. Maybe because runtime starts when the player loads a save slot or starts a new game. If you clear runtime before that doesn't happen.

[philat]

My bad, I remembered there was an issue with get_game_runtime but was remembering the wrong one -- the one I was thinking of is it participates in rollback, which seems to defeat its purpose lol. Anyway, in short, no, there isn't one out of the box.