I'm making a game and i am pretty sure someone doesnt want to restart it every time they go to the bathroom or something that doesn't involve them to play. I want to find out how to make a pause button. Take a look at my game if it helps to understand what i mean.

An easy thing to do would be to like implement a sprite that looks like a pause button and to if mouse down and if touching mouse pointer it will broadcast a message with the broadcast block and when the other parts of your game receive it they freeze

lion525 wrote:

I'm making a game and i am pretty sure someone doesnt want to restart it every time they go to the bathroom or something that doesn't involve them to play. I want to find out how to make a pause button. Take a look at my game if it helps to understand what i mean.

If you haven't finished your game then don't waste your time worrying about a pause button. First you have to make the game. Then you can worry about little details.

Make a variable, name it. Let's use “pause” as an example.

(pause)

When the Green Flag is clicked, you can set pause to 0, so that the game is not paused when you start.

when green flag clicked
set [pause v] to []

Note: 0 = False, 1 = True (Booleans)
If pause = 0, then the game continues. If pause = 1, then it will pause the game.
You will now want a sprite that changes the pause value. A script to toggle pause can look something like this:

when this sprite clicked
if <(pause) = [0]> then 
set [pause] to [1]  
else
set [pause] to [0]
end
wait (1) secs

Now, in order to pause the content of your game, put this script around everything you want paused.

if <(pause) = [0]> then 
Run the usual script.
else
Leave this empty unless you want to have a pause menu.
end

Example:
Let's say you have a script for moving upwards.

when [space v] key pressed
change y by (100)

If you do not want this to happen when the player is paused, simply insert the previously shown script.

when [space v] key pressed
if <(pause) = [0]> then 
change y by (100)
else

end

This should be a functional pause button. Have fun!

I tryed it and it didnt work do you think something might have happened Shadoex. Maybe I missed pplaced something. Do you have any more detail i need to know.

I tried that but it didnt work maybe you could make a simple game and share it and give me a link. @Shadoex

Sorry for the late reply. You probably put the script inside of your backpack– The variable itself did not function because I entered the Scratch block as an example you could copy.

Solution: The script will work if you delete and remake the “pause” variable.

Here's the use of this Pause Button.

~ Shadoex

This is the method I use, and I guarantee that it works! (Remember; only put the pause condition on the absolutely necessary scripts, to reduce lag.)

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If you structure your code so that only one script has a main loop and every other action takes place when you broadcast ‘execute next frame’, then by pausing the main loop, you can freeze multiple actions at once. An example program that has a lot of sprites which uses this technique is https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/117474890/ - space will halt all the action.

You can do this:

forever
if <(pause) = [1]> then
stop [other scripts in sprite v]
wait until <not <(pause) = [1]>>
broadcast [resume v]
end
end

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