How to show an ad every 4 times my player dies

[hanaan328]

Hey, right now I have my ads setup so that every time my player dies it shows an ad. However, I want it so that an ad shows every 4 times the player dies. I’ve searched this up and can’t find anything that exactly helps me. Here’s what I’ve got so far:

private void OnTriggerEnter2D(Collider2D collision
{
        if (collision.tag == "Obstacle")
        {
            showAd();
        }
}

 private void showAd()
    {
        if (Chartboost.hasInterstitial(CBLocation.Default))
        {
            Chartboost.showInterstitial(CBLocation.Default);
        }
        else
        {
            Chartboost.cacheInterstitial(CBLocation.Default);
        }
    }

[bennett_apps]

int counter = 0;

 private void OnTriggerEnter2D(Collider2D collision
 {
         if (collision.tag == "Obstacle")
         {
             counter++;
             if (counter == 4) {
                 counter = 0;
                 showAd();
             }
         }
 }
 
  private void showAd()
     {
         if (Chartboost.hasInterstitial(CBLocation.Default))
         {
             Chartboost.showInterstitial(CBLocation.Default);
         }
         else
         {
             Chartboost.cacheInterstitial(CBLocation.Default);
         }
     }

[Stratosome]

Hmm, I typed up a response to this before and sent it, but I guess it’s gone? Anyway, As others have said, your player can have a death counter. We can actually use the modulus operator here though to make this a bit cooler. So, if deathCount % 4 == 0, then there is no remainder, and deathCount is a multiple of 4, and we want to show the ad. If deathCount % 4 != 0, it is not a multiple of 4, and we don’t want to show the ad. Here’s a bit of rough code for ya:

private int deathCount = 0;

private void KillPlayer() {
     deathCount++;

     if (deathCount % 4 == 0) {
          ShowAdvertisement();
     }
}

private void ShowAdvertisement() {
     // Fancy code to show the ad
}

With this method, you won’t need to bother with resetting some death counter variable to zero.

[Casiell]

Keep an integer counter on some object that you never destroy, or just make the counter static.

Increase counter by 1 every time your player dies

When counter is greater or equal to 4, reset counter and show an ad

[Omti1990]

So having seen the other comments, it seems you’re loading a new scene every time the player dies. As a result you need something that saves your data when you switch scenes. (Normally data just gets deleted when you load a new scene)

The best option imho would be to create a static class that saves all the game data you want to transfer between scenes. Like this: (You see this class doesn’t inherit from Monobehavior, so if you create a new script you need to remove the “: Monobehavior”

public static class StaticGameObjects
{

    public static int deathCounter = 0;
}

Then you’d change your original code like this:

private void OnTriggerEnter2D(Collider2D collision)
    {
        if (collision.tag == "Obstacle")
        {
            //Increases the death counter every time the player dies.
            StaticGameObjects.deathCounter++;

            //In case that the death Counter reaches 4 show the add and reset the deathCounter
            if (StaticGameObjects.deathCounter == 4)
            {
                showAd();
                StaticGameObjects.deathCounter = 0;
            }
            
        }
 }

[SpawnofTarterus]

I’m just learning how to code now so you are a bit far ahead of me, but couldn’t you just set a variable to count up each time the play dies? Once it hit’s four it will trigger the ad to play and then reset itself back to 0.