let me redirect you to my other topic:

basically my clock just froze at 4 seconds.

Okay it's working now. thanks.

Edit: I've run into another problem...the clock is working okay but in a separate file where I've added the events for the sandwiches and fillings to appear, since I haven't figured out how to set it up so only one sandwich and it's repsective filling pattern appears one at a time the clock stops at 4 seconds. Is this because I have so many sprites on screen?

Thanks!

Edit: Okay I've gotten most of my variables set up, and in the case of the timer starting automatically do I set the variables to constant?

Edit Edit: Okay I just tried and that didn't work.

You will need to add variables one for minutes and one for seconds.

Every tick

--> add dt (delta-time) to seconds

If seconds >= (is more or equal) 60 (because there are 60seconds in a minute)

--> Add 1 to minutes

--> Subtract 60 from seconds

And just pack it all in, in a Timer running boolean or whatever you want to stop/start it.

And if you want it in a text object do:

Set text to Minutes&floor(Seconds)

Could you make some images for this too please? I kinda get deer in headlights at text only.

In another game I'm working on I'm using a minute and second time, but instead of subtracting I need to add to it where it starts at 00:00 and ends at whenever you finish the game.

I'm working on a game where you're prompted to make a sandwich with an image of a random sandwich: in the example image a lettuce, meat tomato, and mustard sandwich.

And I have a lot of questions on how to handle this and how to keep the memory manageable because with 16 fillings and 16 possible sandwiches I foresee a lot of events.

In the game you have to correctly make 4 sandwiches from the ingredients shown.

Okay here's the list of questions:

1. How can I randomize the appearance of sandwiches?

2. I want the sandwiches to vanish after five seconds then five seconds later reappear for 1-2 seconds and repeat.

3. I want the ingredients to be placed (this is a drag and drop game) in a certain order how can I make the ingredient "return" to the tray if the player tries to add a correct ingredient but in the wrong order?

4. How can I "shuffle" the fillings for each new sandwich?

5. For the sandwiches how can I ensure that there's a different 4 sandwich combination each time the game is played?

Thanks!

Oh and speaking of tablets, does anyone have an Idea USA tablet? It's what I've been using to test on android and the background sometimes vanishes when I try to test via LAN. and on my iPhone, where I'm testing it on IOS, the music doesn't play on LAN.

Could this just be a Wi-Fi hiccup?

— yes, I agree with Scofano, test it on mobile ASAP. I had to totally remake Star Catcher for it to run properly on mobile especially with it being a "Catch stuff as it falls" game.

I've been able to get my file down to 20 mb and it;s running okay on mobile though there's this odd bit 30 seconds in where it slows down a bit...

Huh...maybe It's becasue I compressed all my images in export for web.

yeah, I'm trying a new file with a smaller layout size and so far it's working.

I'm working on my game Star Catcher and for it to run on a mobile device it needs to stay on the small side.

Problem is, right after I get all my layouts (4) and event sheets for them made I add the compressed version of my background and the memory shoots up to 29mb before I've added any sprites or music or events! I have it at a standard 16:9 resolution landscape mode.

Can anyone help me out?

Thanks, in the meantime I've been able to cobble something together using the gravity and the equation Whiteclaws suggested and it's working so far but thanks for the help.

And why yes I do use RPG Maker. I'm making a game called Mary Sue Busters. It originally was a demo I made for a final in my game studies class and I'm working on a complete version.