How I make daily rewards? Help

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Godot Version

Godot 4

Question

Hi, I want to make a game that every day when you open it you recived 100 points to play. A text box pops up and when you accept it, the points you had previously are added to the ones you had
How do I get them only once a day?

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Are you ok with people closing the game, changing their date, then reopening it for more?

Edit: the reason I ask is because the answer can be easy or hard. Buy easier answers are cheatable. Which is ok if your fine with that.

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Universally? Or only specific, common, types of this?

I dont think a daily surprise bad on principle.

What dont you like about it? What if it were optional?

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I’ll leave the whole points and popup implementation to you. But you can use the Time singleton to check the current date:

Time.get_date_dict_from_system().day

Here is the documentation: Time — Godot Engine (stable) documentation in English

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That’s my problem :disappointed: I want the difficult way but I’m having a lot of troubles with it

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Yep, I have the code of the points system and also the pop up text but my trouble is that I want to show it just once every day. I know that I could do it with that code but I don’t want people to change the time. Thanks you anyway

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In that case, you’ll probably have to connect to some online time server like this one: https://worldtimeapi.org/

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Okay! How can I do it? You know some tutorial about it? Is my first proyect and I have never connected it to an online server. Thanks you so much!

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Sure, here is a good example of how you can do a call to the API: Making HTTP requests — Godot Engine (stable) documentation in English

So it would look something like this:

extends Node

func _ready():
	$HTTPRequest.request_completed.connect(_on_request_completed)
	$HTTPRequest.request("http://worldtimeapi.org/api/timezone/Europe/Brussels")

func _on_request_completed(result, response_code, headers, body):
	var json = JSON.parse_string(body.get_string_from_utf8())
	print(json["day_of_week"])
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Thanks you so much :sob: I’m gonna try it!!