How do I stop/pause a layout completely?

Hello all,

I want to make it in my game so that when the timer hits zero the "Game Over Layer" Appears, displaying the game over text and what not. However, I want everything else in the background to stop moving and pause while the game over screen is displayed; It's odd to have things continue moving and updating after game over is displayed. How would one pause/stop the layout, but keep it in the background?

Thanks,

William

You can set time scale to 0, anything should stop moving until you set it back to 1. Still some will not be paused like mouse/touch inputs I believed.

Another way is to put the events that moves/updates those objects into a group and deactivate it when game over.

Hope this helps.

I read a few of the "pause" tutorials on here but wasn't really happy with them. Here's what I did and it seems to work.

I created an animated sprite containing two animations in it of 1 frame each and I called it "pauseButton". Animation one is called Pause and is the standard || Pause icon and animation two is called "Play" and is the standard triangular Play icon.

The rest should be explained in this graphic:

Clicking/touching Pause freezes everything but doesn't disable touch input. I've only tested it with the mouse but I have no reason to believe it won't work on a mobile device.

In your particular case you could replace the touch event with a timer event.

You can set time scale to 0, anything should stop moving until you set it back to 1. Still some will not be paused like mouse/touch inputs I believed.

Another way is to put the events that moves/updates those objects into a group and deactivate it when game over.

Hope this helps.

This solution was by far the most viable one for me. Activating/deactivating groups are very handy for complex games with multiple events and layouts. Thanks!