How to create timer in Lua Server Runtime

Runtime Framework
1

I am new at Nakama and I wnat to use the server rumtime to creat the traffic light system, by putting the countdown timer and send the colour status to the game client. But I need to add the countdown finction, how to do that? It seems that I cannot use timer.performWithDelay and sleep etc?

Thanks!

2

You shouldn’t use Timers. Instead you should use an AuthoritativeMatch that sends the traffic light colours as per GameLoop invocation to your client(s).

3

Thanks for your direction, but should I use tick_rate to control the time of changing the traffic light signal? Thanks!

4

@whkhk yep, you can use the current tick and tick_rate within a match loop to infer elapsed time.

5

Thanks, and can I have a more guide about that, I am very new to this… Also is there any good example code that can let me know more about? Thanks!

6

Have a look at our tic-tac-toe template.