Skip Button resets on death?

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Hello!

So I am trying to implement a “Skip-Button” in my 2D Platformer that does appear after a certain amount of minutes. Problem I have is that as soon as the player dies the “timer” resets.
So lets say I set it to 10 seconds, then if I die on second 8 it restarts at 0.
How would I be able to fix that?
It should only reset when the scene changes (switching from one level to the next one).

Here’s my Code so far: Note: the 3 second timer is just for testing purposes, it will be like 5 Minutes later on.
Thank you in advance!

[SerializeField] private GameObject skipLevelButton;

private void Start()
{
    skipLevelButton.SetActive(false);
    Invoke("ShowSkipButton", 3f);
}

private void ShowSkipButton()
{
    skipLevelButton.SetActive(true);
}

public void HideSkipButton()
{
    skipLevelButton.SetActive(false);
}

public void SkipLevel()
{
    SceneManager.LoadScene(SceneManager.GetActiveScene().buildIndex + 1); 
}
2

You better show what’s going on when player dies. What if it’s restarting the scene or something? Anyway, even in that case you can get away using something like unscaledTime.

float TimeBeforeShowing = 10;
float TimeWhenShow;
bool isShowingButton;
static bool isTimerStarted;

void Awake()
{
    if(!isTimerStarted)
    {
        TimeWhenShow = Time.unscaledTime + TimeBeforeShowing;
    }
}

void Update()
{
    if(!isShowingButton && Time.unscaledTime > TimeWhenShow)
    {
        isShowingButton = true;
        ShowButton();
    }
    if(isLevelCompleted)//Basically before loading new scene
    {
        isTimerStarted = false;
    }
}