Timing Actions and adding a count-down clock

Here is a thread that discusses options for custom timers.

Hi Mike,

• You can subtract any amount of points from your numeric score variable when the timeline ends
• To visualize it you need to create a numeric timer variable that you will count down. You could do this by assigning a new value, or subtracting 1 point every second. If you're working with Storyline 1 you need to do this with off-slide objects and can have the subtract/assign trigger fire when the timeline of the off-slide object starts. If you've got Storyline 2 life is simpler as you can assign these actions to the position of the timeline itself.

I did the same thing here in using SL2: http://www.seriouslearning.nl/challenges/CH51/story.html

Thnks for this - your example looks great and I can't wait til I get Story2 in a few weeks!

Will have a go at the S1 option for now.

Thanks for quick response

Thanks Michael - there is some useful stuff in this thread - I have already seen how to use the simple clock version and adapted it for my game - thanks

Thanks for the update Mike, and glad Jeff and Michael were able to assist!