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I have been trying to create a PyGame, in which the users goal is to pop as many balloons as possible in a certain time frame. Before my game gets initiated I ask the user what difficulty they would like to play on then use their input to work out a time limit. However I have struggled with getting this time limit to work. Any help would be amazing.

Cheers

Tommyzack
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set a userevent and have it added to the event queue every 1000 ms (1 second.)

one_second_event = pygame.USEREVENT + 1

add it to the timer in init:

pygame.time.set_timer(one_second_event, 1000)

test for it in the event check

for event in pygame.event.get():
    if event.type == pygame.one_second_event:
       self.total_time += 1

you can then test total time against the time limit and quit when it is equal.

marienbad
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You can do something like this :

clock = pygame.time.Clock()

#[...]
time_limit = 6000 #6000 ms
while True:
    time_limit -= clock.tick(60) #Roughly 6 seconds
    if time_limit <= 0:
        #[...] Do whatever you want here
CopyrightC
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