I think that being able to pause games and animations would be a great idea. If I'm ever in the middle of watching some amazing and really long animation, or playing some game that took forever for me to get to where I was, and someone comes up and asks me something, my options are limited. I could either blow them off entirely, (extremely rude) or hit stop. Hitting stop is significantly more considerate, but then once they are done I have to start over again. This is where I think a pause button would come in handy.

datcucumber wrote:

I think that being able to pause games and animations would be a great idea. If I'm ever in the middle of watching some amazing and really long animation, or playing some game that took forever for me to get to where I was, and someone comes up and asks me something, my options are limited. I could either blow them off entirely, (extremely rude) or hit stop. Hitting stop is significantly more considerate, but then once they are done I have to start over again. This is where I think a pause button would come in handy.

This can be done with scripts. Just ask the game creator to add a pause and play function. For a button:

when this sprite clicked
if <(pause?) = [false]> then
set [pause? v] to [true]
switch costume to [pause v]
broadcast [pause v]

  

else
set [pause? v] to [false]
switch costume to [play v]
broadcast [play v]
end

I think this is a duplicate of a topic I can't find..

Indeed, it is a duplicate (from 2012!)

Sheep_maker wrote:

Indeed, it is a duplicate (from 2012!)

Oh, thanks for finding the link!