Pulp Pong - Dev Tutorial

This is an amazing tutorial, and exactly what I was looking for to get a better sense of some of Pulp's basic functions. It's amazing how much it takes just to get a really nice feeling Pong running, but so informative and satisfying to see it run on my Playdate.

One question I had: if I wanted to mod this to include a countdown timer + delay at the start, before the ball starts moving, how would you recommend going about that? Which element needs a script for this?

I'm trying to adapt this example I found here on the forums, but no dice thus far when adding some of the suggestions to my room script: Customizing a countdown clock - #2 by MintFerret

Thanks in advance!