I need help creating a timer on my pac man isu game due tomorrow! Please help! URGENT!!!!

[Ganan]

What is it you are trying to achieve?
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What is the problem you are having?
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Describe what you have tried to solve this problem
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Post any relevant code (You may choose to attach the file instead of posting the code if it is too long)
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Turing:

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[rdrake]

I think posting some code and/or a description of the problem might help immensely.

[Amarylis]

Er, if you're expecting us to give you the answer, you've got the wrong mindset. My only advice will be to take a look at the Time module, and see how you can use it in your program

[Tony]

Chances are that the post got swallowed during the preview.

The easiest way to count "time" is to count the number of frames you draw. In your main loop, just add an increment

code:

loop    % get input    % move stuff    % draw stuff    timer += 1 end loop

The advantages is that it's very easy and gives you discrete numbers to work with (much simpler to understand than fractions of seconds and what "time" really means to a computer program).

The disadvantage is that it assumes that all of your frames take the same amount of time to complete... but for the most part this should be approximately true.

[Raknarg]

Thats why I use different timers for different events

[Amarylis]

I"ve thankfully not needed to use many timers in projects. As a matter of fact, I've never had to use more than 1 timer at any one time, and it was just a 2 minute countdown

[Raknarg]

Well, in some games I have enemies that each need their own timer (shooting and such). having multiple timers isnt bad if you do it right. But if you don't, it could be a nightmare trying to do it all, remembering what does what, etc.