Managed timers

[npaton]

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Is your feature request related to a problem?

We'd like to have timers that are managed by Empirica so they work seamlessly on a server restart.

Describe the solution you'd like

The initial request looked like this:

function myTimerCallback({game, time}) {
  console.log(`Its ${time}, setting to spooky mode)`)
  game.set("SpookyMode", true)
}

Empirica.on('game', 'start', (ctx, { game, start }) => {
  const midnightTonight = ... // epoch time
  const timerName = 'spookyTimer';
  game.registerTimer(midnightTonight, myTimerCallback, timerName)
}

I'm not sure we can register a timer callback once like this and have it work across restarts. But the general idea is here. What's the simplest API to make something like this possible and easy to use.

Describe alternatives you've considered

You can create timers right now, but you're doing it at the Tajriba level and it is cumbersome.

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