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Have you tried some tutorials, like Ghost Shooter or Platform School? See
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Toralord is right, you can just set a number then use subevents to check that number, like a series of Ifs following on each other.

Just make the events in the easiest way possible and don't worry about inefficiency - events add so much overhead that it's kind of ridiculous to worry about efficiency. You could set up an if-else-if-else-if event chain, but paradoxically, that might be less efficient, because the 'else' event does some special processing.
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For consistency it's probably a good idea to always use backslashes for local paths. AppPath returns a path with backslashes, so if you append forward slashes you end up with a path like this:

C:\Games\MyGame\pictures/file.png

Luckily Windows can work out what this means but I'd stick with backslashes all the way through to be on the safe side...
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Well, you need to copy Python26.dll from the Construct install directory to the same directory as your game. You should have seen a message telling you that you needed to do that when you enabled Python. If you're not using Python scripts, you can turn it off in Application Properties and you won't need that file.
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Sounds awesome
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It's easily possible in events! You just need a little math. If seconds is your number in seconds, floor(seconds / 60) is the minutes (divide by 60 and round down), and seconds % 60 is the seconds counter (modulo 60, ie. remainder after dividing by 60).
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There are built in save/load actions in the system object which take care of all the complexities for you.
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Can you reproduce the problem in a blank .cap and post that? We can't see what your code is really doing from an EXE.
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No, you can never start an event with an OR condition, even if it's disabled. If you enabled the group, you'd have an invalid event!
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Congratulations PixelRebirth!
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Really? I thought David was working on/had completed something to do with picking integration in Python. He's Mr. Python though, so would have to comment himself.
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Try using subevents to calculate the sum:

+ On collide between Sprite and Sprite

---+ Always

---> Set global 'sum' to 0

---+ For each Sprite (should iterate only over picked sprites - the two colliding ones)

---+ Add Sprite('momentum') to global 'sum'

---+ Always

---> Create object, set momentum to global('sum')

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