How would I get how long the player has played in-game?

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#1

How would I go about make a counter that shows how long the player has been playing right now?

I was thinking of making a counter that just goes up, but I am a little bit confused to achieve this

Help will be appreciated

Thanks :smiley:

GreenTreeGamingYT

#2

Hi, you could add a value into the Player called Time and increase it every second then save it in datastore.

#3

So I would use a while loop and increase the Time counter while using wait(1), right?

#4

Yeah, I recommend not using while loop and use RunService.Stepped.
Here is a code example

local RunService = game:GetService("RunService")
RunService.Stepped:Connect(function()
	
end)
#5

Use this code, I made while back ago It should save with datastore to :slight_smile:

local DataStoreService = game:GetService("DataStoreService")
local CurrencyDataStore = DataStoreService:GetDataStore("CurrencyDataStore")

local RunService = game:GetService("RunService")




function PlayerJoined(Player)
	local Success, KeyInfo
	local CurrencyData

	Success, CurrencyData, KeyInfo = pcall(function()
		return CurrencyDataStore:GetAsync(Player.UserId)
	end)


	local Leaderstats = Instance.new("Folder")
	Leaderstats.Name = "leaderstats"
	Leaderstats.Parent = Player

	local Time = Instance.new("IntValue")
	Time.Name = "Currency"
	Time.Parent = Leaderstats
	Time.Value = 0
	
	while task.wait(1) do
		Time.Value += 1
	end
end


function PlayerLeft(Player)

	local Success, Errormessage = pcall(function()
		CurrencyDataStore:SetAsync(Player.UserId, Player.leaderstats.Currency.Value)
	end)

	if not Success then
		print(Errormessage)
	end
end



function OnShutDown()
	task.wait(3)
end



game.Players.PlayerAdded:Connect(PlayerJoined)
game.Players.PlayerRemoving:Connect(PlayerLeft)
game:BindToClose(OnShutDown)
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#6

Use tick().

local gamestarted = tick()
print(tick() - gamestarted)
#7 

-- services --

local Players = game:GetService('Players')

-- events --

Players.PlayerAdded:Connect(function(player)
    -- load data --
    while player do task.wait(1)
       player.Data.TimePlayed.Value += 1 
    end
end)
#8

Doesn’t that just show how long the server has been up and running?

#9

Actually no, tick() is time that has passed since 1st of january of 1970. You could use tick() for time played counter, but wouldn’t recommend it since it’s deprecated.

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#10

Oh yeah. I have not read the title correctly

#11

I will try out the following ideas in a new game and see if they work. I will reply back soon

#12

Thank you @lilmazen1234, your code works like a charm. I will use the toMS() function to make it readable and change up the data store. Thanks a lot!