How do I gradually increase run speed of endless runner

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I want to have the player’s run speed incrementally increase over time but stop incrementing after a certain speed. This is for an endless runner. I have looked up some tutorials, but I’m not sure what I am missing.

I am expecting to have my character start the game with a low run speed, and slowly increase the speed in order to make the game more challenging. The character’s speed will stop increasing once it reaches a max speed.

I have created a player variable for the incremental run speed called “Run_Acceleration”. I then created a new event to make this variable equal to the player’s run speed. Then I added an action to increase the run speed.
Then I added a sub condition to stop the incrementation of the run speed.

The tutorial I followed is a bit different from what I am doing. The tutorial was increasing the speed of objects coming towards the player, while in my case I have the player running through the level with a static camera. But this was the only tutorial I could find so it makes sense that it’s not working…

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Thank you!

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Modify the player’s max_speed of the platformer behaviour directly, and use a timer to set when the MaxSpeed is updated:

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This worked! Thank you so much MrMen!

My character seems to pick up the speed a bit too soon. Can I ask what the “500” value is in the action within the “Change the maximum horizontal speed of player” is?
And which values within my player should I tweak around to check different speeds? Is it the “walk acceleration” in my player’s behaviors?

Thanks again!

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If your character is picking up speed too soon, then change the value of the timer check to a larger number than 1 second.

The 500 is the maximum value that Max_Speed will get to. Another way of writing it is to use the clamp function (Clamp(Value, Min, Max)), so in your case Clamp(Player.PlatformerObject::MaxSpeed+1, 1, 500)

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Thank you for clarifying!

I will be playing around with these values.

Thanks again for the help!