Is There A Thingy That Can Tell Me How Much Time I...

[Havok]

Have spent playing Madden 11?

[adam_grif]

As far as I'm aware, XBL/PSN do not keep track of time spent in game.

[Lagmonster]

Dunno...stopwatch?

Or, get sequential blowjobs. On average, every successful blowjob while playing, for a thirty-something, should denote roughly a 20 minute period of time. You can extrapolate from there.

[TheFeniX]

360 voice will track days played, but I don't think it's done with "24 hours played = 1 day." I think it's "If it sees you playing X game in a 24 hour window = 1 day played."

As for /played like in most MMOs, I don't think there's a way to track that outside the game itself, like how Fallout 3 and Borderlands track character usage.

[Purple]

What about making a simple timer program?
You could integrate it like a launcher with your games so that you get a list of PC games you want and just clicking it's name automatically activates the exe and starts the timer. The timer will than hum in the background waiting for you to end your game and stop it manually. It should not be that hard to program. All you would need is some sort of open source c++ compiler and 15 minutes on the net with a turtorial.

[Zablorg]

What about making a simple timer program?
You could integrate it like a launcher with your games so that you get a list of PC games you want and just clicking it's name automatically activates the exe and starts the timer. The timer will than hum in the background waiting for you to end your game and stop it manually. It should not be that hard to program. All you would need is some sort of open source c++ compiler and 15 minutes on the net with a turtorial.

Holy shit.

Never mind that Madden 11 isn't even on the PC, you're suggesting he learn a programming language he doesn't give a shit about from scratch, to get a number that's not even relevant to the question.

Do you think that's going to be a practical solution to anybody but you?

[Sarevok]

If it is so easy maybe Purple can write one for Havok.

[Purple]

Holy shit.

Never mind that Madden 11 isn't even on the PC, you're suggesting he learn a programming language he doesn't give a shit about from scratch, to get a number that's not even relevant to the question.

Do you think that's going to be a practical solution to anybody but you?

My apologies, I got carried away.

If it is so easy maybe Purple can write one for Havok.

Sure, just tell me how to send over an exe file and I will see what I can do.

[Stark]

If you can write a program to tell him how long he already spent in a game, I'll be pretty impressed.

Hav, I guess you can get a lower limit by looking at 'games played', but that's not going to cover the hours at a time you've spent in season mode.

[Purple]

The exe is done and working, I am testing it for bugs and writing the help file as we speak and will upload the whole thing tomorrow for anyone who is interested.

I mean, the whole thing is just a open file dialog that helps you locate the selected application, a button to open it and a timer.

[Havok]

Someone needs to relearn the concept of time. lol

I thought that the xbox, or somewhere on Live kept track of it. I guess not.

[adam_grif]

Someone needs to relearn the concept of time. lol

I thought that the xbox, or somewhere on Live kept track of it. I guess not.

The only systems I'm aware of that do track it are Steam (don't use competing DD services so they probably do as well) and XFire. Obviously this doesn't help you track your Madden playtime. Even if we do find one that tracks XBL stats, it's unlikely to operate retroactively anyway.

Edit:

Hey wait, the Wii keeps track of all games you play each day and the time spent. You just have to buy all future versions for it!

[Purple]

Just one thing I have to note.

Because of the limitations of the programming language and my own skill it was impossible for me to make the program detect the closing of the chosen application automatically and as such the only way to stop the timer is to do so by hand. However,I trust that since you will want to check the time anyway this should not pose a great problem. All you have to do is hit the stop button once you close the game you are playing.

[Zablorg]

Just one thing I have to note.

Because of the limitations of the programming language and my own skill it was impossible for me to make the program detect the closing of the chosen application automatically and as such the only way to stop the timer is to do so by hand. However,I trust that since you will want to check the time anyway this should not pose a great problem. All you have to do is hit the stop button once you close the game you are playing.

Who are you talking to? Hav's not using a computer here.

[Purple]

To Stark. I mean, I don't care if anyone uses it, especially since the original guy does not use a computer and hence can't. But Stark sort of challenged me to try and make the program. So I went and did it. About the last post, I was just way too tired to type my own so I just copy-pasted from my readme file.

[adam_grif]

To Stark. I mean, I don't care if anyone uses it, especially since the original guy does not use a computer and hence can't. But Stark sort of challenged me to try and make the program. So I went and did it. About the last post, I was just way too tired to type my own so I just copy-pasted from my readme file.

I think you missed a key part of his post, which was "how long he already spent in game". As in, you can't use a simple counting program to tell you how long you spent before you started counting.

[Sarevok]

Honestly Purple is this about helping Havok or proving that you have 1337 coding skills ?

Because it seems like the latter to me.

[mithie]

I dunno. You can get a chess clock, and punch it every time you start playing madden and punch it again every time you have to get up (food, bathroom, etc), and then just tally up the time at the end of every week.