How to Pause and Unpause Game?

Question

So I made a function that allows the player to hit the "p" key which will change the framerate of the game:

if (keys[80])

{

if(game_paused =="false"){

stage.frameRate = 0;

game_paused = "true";

}

if(game_paused =="true"){

stage.frameRate = 30;

game_paused = "false";

}

The problem is, when the key is pressed, the game seems to go at double the framerate, like 60 or maybe even higher than that. I have no clue why, I don't see how making the framerate EQUAL 30 would make it go HIGHER than that... any ideas? Thanks.

Ned Murphy · Accepted Answer

It's a two-player side-scroller fighting game. It's kind of difficult to just say how the game code works because there's so much to it, but basically, pressing certain keys on the keyboard will allow the characters to move around, attack, etc. The battle portion of the game takes place on a single frame. I'll try using 0.01.

If it is all code-based, then chances are you need to deal with disabling anything that processes when you click the pause button. It can get fairly complex depending on how much you have going on at any given time. You might be able to simplify some of it if you build in conditional code where needed that essentially checks if a paused variable is set or not....

if(!game_paused) { code that processes when the game is running }

Ned Murphy · Answer

Without knowing more about your design I would say instead of changing the frameRate to 0, use stop();

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