timed game

[struth]

Got a simple memory game that I want kids to complete in say five minutes or else _root.bigfoot squishes them. Just can't seem to get the get timer() thing working.

Can anyone help?

TIA
Struth

 

[oldnewbie]

Hard to say without seeing your code!
Post it or make your .fla available!

Regards,

ldnewbie

 

[struth]

Have a look at this and see what you think. This is on an off stage MC:

onClipEvent (enterFrame) {
if (_root.delay) {
if (Math.floor(getTimer()/1000) == _root.lastTime+1) {
}
} else if (Math.floor(getTimer()/1000) == _root.lastTime+_root.wait) {
_root.lastTime = Math.floor(getTimer()/1000);
_root.delay = true;
tellTarget ("_root.bigfoot&quot {
play ();
}
}
}

Plus an action on the root

_root.wait = 300;

 

[wangbar]

I might be missing something subtle here but isn't the first "if" statement redundant?

An easy timer script for five minutes would be to set up the end time as soon as the game starts and then use your clip event to check the time as the game progresses. So...

on(release){
_root.endTime=getTimer();
_root.endTime+=300000;
}

...would be attached to the start button (or equivalent function) and the checking could be done by something like...

onClipEvent(enterFrame){
currentTime=getTimer();
if (currentTime>=_root.endTime){
_root.bigfoot.gotoAndPlay(1);
}
}