How to add time?

rahula1995

Hey, so I'm still on the initial stages of understanding twine, so I want to know how I can add time to a particular story. In the sense that limiting the amount of time for selecting an option.
For example: 'Press option A for x action
Press optionB for y action' and if the user doesn't select either of these in a given Time, say, 15 seconds, showing a default slide(not the right term, I think)
I hope I've made my query clear. The help will be much appreciated.

greyelf

You need to state which story format you are using, as answers can be different for each one. I am going to assume you are using Harlowe.

You can use Harlowe's (live:) macro to make something happen after a period of time, in the following example the Reader has 10 seconds to click one of the two markup links or be shown the Prison passage:

(live: 10s)[(goto: "Prison")]
In ten seconds you will be caught and sent to Prison if you don't click on one of the links below!

[[Run Away->Escaped]]
[[Hide->Escaped]]

... the above example assumes you have created both a Prison and a Escaped passage.