Real-time system

Hello everyone, is it possible to implement a real-time system similar "The  Last Express"? I understand this to mean that different events are tied to different times. If the player is not in the right place, then he may miss something important. I didn't find this information in simple tutorials, so I write here. How difficult is this task? Is it possible to do with visual programming? I will be glad to have any explanations.

By real time, do you mean time passed in the game, or current local time of the person playing your game?

By real time, do you mean time passed in the game, or current local time of the person playing your game?

First, of course.

Create a value somewhere & call it playtime - maybe on your playable character. Also create a called by other action block type, rename to something like "update_playtime" & add something along the lines of this inside of it...

1. pause for 1000ms
2. value "playtime" + 1
3. jump to action part #1

Now inside of each scene create an at begin of scene action (if you don't already have one) & call the called by other action block you created earlier. Next create an at end of scene action block for each scene (again if you don't already have any created) & quit the called by other action block you created earlier.

The idea behind this is that the value will increment by 1 every second that passes whilever a scene is shown. If you don't call the action block in menu type scenes then the time won't increase.

Anyway, ages ago I wrote some functions for converting seconds into dd:hh:mm:ss, etc format. You can find them  here.

Thank you for the detailed answer. Now I have a better understanding of which way to go. I thought it would be a difficult task, but I didn't think I would have to step into completely uncharted territory.