How to I have health bars continue to drain when the game isn't being played

Hi

I have a feature in a game where you have to take care of your character by feeding it, making it rest etc like a tamagotchi.

I have a health bar attached to each element that I want to drain over time. So you have to feed your character twice a day and then weather you have the game open or not the bars drain evenly over real world time.

Does anyone know how to make that work?

Thanks

Dave

Hey man. One way would be to local store the last time your game has been played, maybe doing some verifications from time to time when it is being played.

When your player opens your game again, compare the actual time with the last time it has been played (stored in local storage) and update your health bar accordingly.

This is not a very good approach. It may lead the players to cheat in your game. A good way would be to do it using an external web server to better protect the data. Basically doing the same thing, but verifying and storing time values from and on the server.

Also, I just found a topic here in the forum called "HOW DO I COMPARE TIME BETWEEN GAME SESSIONS ?". The guy have a google drive link with an example about it.

https://www.construct.net/en/forum/construct-3/how-do-i-8/how-do-i-compare-time-between-141171?kws=elapsed%2btime