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That's it for this tutorial! The game has a pause screen, and the code is simple enough that you should be able to add it into your own projects and modify it to suit your needs. The final bit of code to add goes underneath what you've just added at the position shown:

The application_surface is essentially the 'canvas' onto which everything in the game is drawn, so by copying it to the paused surface, we are preserving what is currently being drawn to the screen.

Next we create our surface and draw the application_surface to it. This means that we will only deactivate objects when the game is paused, and it also means that we can use this section to create other instances after calling the deactivate code - like pause menu buttons or logos or whatever - and they won't be affected by the deactivation. Why is this step important? Well, surfaces are volatile which means that things outside the game can destroy them (like minimising the game window), and when that happens the surface_exists() check will return false, but the paused_surf variable won't be -1 (it'll have the ID value of the old surface) and so we won't call the deactivate code again. If it doesn't we then check the paused_surf variable to see if it's -1 or not, and if it is, we deactivate all the instances except the calling instance which is the game controller (we don't want to deactivate the controller!). Here we are checking to see if the paused variable is true and if it is we then check to see if the surface we'll be using to draw instead of instances actually exists or not. Again, we already have code in this event, so we will need to insert our pause code into the event, in the case for rm_Game, at the position marked in the image below: The final thing we need to do now is in the Draw Event of the obj_Game object, so open that now. Alarms count down by 1 at the beginning of every step of the game, which means to pause them, we simply add 1 every step while the game is paused! So, we are checking to see if paused is trueand if it is we add one to each of the alarms. The next bit of code in this event is for dealing with the alarms in the controller object. We do this because we'll be using it as a control for deactivating instances in the Draw Event, which we'll explain in a moment. Note that we also set the paused_surf variable to -1 again. This part is important, as we don't want to keep the surface in memory if it's not required anymore.

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We then check if it's false (the game was paused, but it's just been unpaused) and if it is we activate all the instances in the room and free the surface that we use for drawing while the game is paused. If it is pressed, we toggle the paused variable using the not operator ( !). So, here we're checking to make sure we're in the game room, then we check to see if the 'P' key is pressed. To start with, open the Create Event and add in the following variables: This is the Space Rocks controller object and it's where we will be making the pause system work. To get things started, you need to open up the object obj_Game. since deactivated instances don't draw, the screen goes blank! However, as you'll see, we can fix that! This makes deactivating things ideal for creating a pause system, although it does create a minor issue. Deactivated instances still exist in the game, but they're in a kind of 'limbo' where they do nothing - they won't draw and they won't run their events. There are various different ways that you can pause a game, but for this tutorial we're going to use one of the simplest, which is to deactivate all the game instances and then draw a 'Pause' screen.

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If you download the above project, you need to open GameMaker Studio 2 and select 'Import' on the Start Page to open it, or simply drag it onto the IDE and drop it, which will show you a prompt to import the project.

Before continuing, this tutorial uses the finished Space Rocks tutorial project as it's base, so if you're new to GameMaker Studio 2 you should go through that before doing this, although you can download the finished tutorial project from the link below and use that too if you wish:ĭownload: Space Rocks Finished Tutorial YYZ