Timer / Count down timer question

Hi!

I just have a thought. Would it be possible to make a countdown timer continue to run even if game is exited?

For example, a player wants to build a house and will take 10 min timer to complete, so even if players exits the game the timer still continues.

Thank you!

My first thought is cannot be done because game is not running, but you could save PC/phone's time to local storage every second or so ( necessary because you have no idea when they will exit the game ), then when game starts up again load that saved date/time and compare against current date/time. The difference will be the time between their last exit and current start up of game

It can be done like BadMario said. I would not save the timer itself, but, instead, save the start time of every action. When loading the game just compare the new time with the start time to see if actions are finished and setup timers if they're not.

Hope this helps...

Cheers!

You can check this example I just made.

Click to add a "construction". After 60 seconds (online or offline) the "construction" will change it's state to "constructed" (square becomes green). You may close and reopen as you wish and the countdown will keep counting.

Cheers!

Thank you BadMario and brunopalermo for your inputs and reply!

brunopalermo ill be trying your capx when i have a chance tomorrow.

brunopalermo

your capx is construct 3 :( im using construct 2, would it be possible if you provide a capx in construct 2? or a way for me to covert this to construct 2?

brunopalermo I am unable to open your c3 version still because the free trial is on lower version than yours. help!

Run this version of C3 and you should be able to open the file

You are trying to open it with an earlier version

https://www.construct.net/en/make-games/releases/beta/r163

Thanks for the example and the C2 version! they're nice to study! :)