Rapid Button Press?

[yomaniac]

I am trying to make a mechanic where the player needs to rapidly press a key on the keyboard to continue the game, if they fail then it's game over. Anyone know how to do this?

 

[Andar]

Basically a series of conditional branches with waits, switches and variables for controlling.
The conditional branch checks if a key is pressed, but then you'll have to check if it is released again before counting - that is where you need to use switches and different nested conditional branches.

 

[AdamSakuru]

Basically a series of conditional branches with waits, switches and variables for controlling.
The conditional branch checks if a key is pressed, but then you'll have to check if it is released again before counting - that is where you need to use switches and different nested conditional branches.

Is there a way to check specifically if a key has been released? Or would you just use a conditional branch to check if it's been pressed and then do stuff in the "Else" part of it?

 

[Andar]

No, that is why you need switches and a series of conditional branches.
A key has been released if it it not pressed now but was pressed previously (as stored in the switch)

 

[caethyril]

To elaborate...something like this:

Spoiler

◆Control Switches：#0001 ButtonDown = OFF
◆Control Variables：#0004 Input = 0
◆Loop
  ◆If：ButtonDown is ON
    ◆If：Button [OK] is pressed down
      ◆Comment：Nothing.
      ◆
    ：Else
      ◆Comment：Button was pressed and released!
      ◆Control Switches：#0001 ButtonDown = OFF
      ◆Control Variables：#0004 Input += 1
      ◆
    ：End
    ◆
  ：Else
    ◆If：Button [OK] is pressed down
      ◆Comment：Button is now pressed down!
      ◆Control Switches：#0001 ButtonDown = ON
      ◆
    ：End
    ◆
  ：End
  ◆If：Input = 10
    ◆Break Loop
    ◆
  ：Else
    ◆Wait：1 frame
    ◆
  ：End
  ◆
：Repeat Above
◆Text：None, Window, Bottom
：    ：You escaped! \.Congratulations!

Adding a timer to it just requires another variable (and branches) to count & check how many times the loop has run. ^_^

I happen to have a worked example, timed and with picture prompts, over on the Steam Workshop if you're interested. It's for battle skill input, but a couple of them use a "button mash" approach (the actual events don't require any plugins, don't worry). It may be a bit over-complicated for this purpose but here's a link if you're interested: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1287577261