displaying score and best time

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@ariel-phet requested that this be relocated from phetsims/balancing-act#63.

Things to discuss:

(1) Do all games need to behave the same wrt score and best time?
(2) Should 'best score' or 'last score' be shown on the level selection screen?
(3) When should best time be shown on the level selection screen?
(4) Should we show best time in the scoreboard, next to the current time?

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4/7/16 dev meeting decisions:

(1) Do all games need to behave the same wrt score and best time?

Yes.

(2) Should 'best score' or 'last score' be shown on the level selection screen?

Last score.

(3) When should best time be shown on the level selection screen?

When timer is on and you have a perfect score, show the best time for any perfect score.

(4) Should we show best time in the scoreboard, next to the current time?

No.

[pixelzoom]

Reopening.

I'm responsible for 3 sims where this is an open (non-blocking) issue:

• Game should retain most recent score balancing-chemical-equations#113
• Game should retain most recent score graphing-lines#61
• Game should retain most recent score reactants-products-and-leftovers#46

While #51 (comment) was the dev team consensus, there are other thoughts from @kathy-phet in phetsims/graphing-lines#61 (comment). And according to phetsims/graphing-lines#61 (comment), this is on @amanda-phet's list as a design issue.

[amanda-phet]

Discussed briefly 12/7/23 (and we will have a more definitive discussion next week) but @arouinfar @marlitas @ariel-phet and I think best score and best time are the most logical decisions for what to display.

[amanda-phet]

Discussed 12/15/23 with @ariel-phet @arouinfar @amanda-phet @marlitas @pixelzoom @kathy-phet

We would like to prioritize consistency between sims, as much as possible.

Showing best score is the most logical, and moving forward we'd like to only show best score.

Regarding time, we think it's ok to keep a clock option to time yourself playing a level (optional for sims and games), and you can see your time upon completing of a level, but we agree we should not show any times on the level selection screen.