Increasing timer with each choice

Authoring Twine
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Dear all,

I have rooms with choices, and I want time to pass for each choice. I have stolen some code for that but don’t know how to use it.

<<widget “addmins”>>
<<run $gameDate.setUTCMinutes($gameDate.getUTCMinutes() + $args[0])>>
<>

Question now: How do I call this code? Like, when I am in Room 1 and have a choice to go to Room 2 and that would take 2 minutes, where and how do I call this “addmins” routine?

Thanks and kind regards,
G.

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Probably like:

<<link [[Room 2]]>><<addmins 2>><</link>>
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You should also be using the corrected version of those widgets.

4

Sorry for asking again, but I’m lacking the basic skills. (Sugarcube 1.0.34 if that’s of importance.) Right now my choice is simply displayed like this:

[[Room 2 looks tempting!|Room 2]]

How can I integrate the addmins command into this, or how do I need to rewrite the choice?

Thanks!

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You do realize that’s older than dirt. You really should switch to v2.
 

Anyway. Josh gave you an example that works:

<<link [[Room 2 looks tempting!|Room 2]]>><<addmins 2>><</link>>

This also works, but doesn’t cause Twine 2 to show a connection arrow or attempt to automatically create a missing passage:

<<link "Room 2 looks tempting!" "Room 2">><<addmins 2>><</link>>
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Phew, it works! Thanks! Although I get an error message “Error: macro <> does not exist”.

And yes, I will upgrade, promised. :wink:

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You need to use backticks/backquotes when posting things that could be confused for the forum markup (Markdown), otherwise, as you can see, shenanigans may occur.

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Sorry! The error message was “error: macro <</link>> does not exist”.

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Meh. SugarCube v1’s version of <<link>> is called <<click>>. Either change to that (not recommended) or switch to v2 (recommended).

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That works like a charm, thanks a lot!!! (Will upgrade later.)