Pause/freeze the game

GDevelop general Feature requests
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Hi,

I would really appreciate a feature (action) to pause/freeze the game, and other to unpause/unfreeze (just like in NES games, where some of the games just freezes when start is released) - this would pause every animation, timer, X and Y position etc. I know that this can be done with stop the object and other actions, but if it’s not hard to implement I believe it would be a nice feature to be added to GDevelop.

What do you think?

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Hi! This functionality is already available:

  • You can use the Change layer time scale function to set the time of the specified layer to 0 and all objects on this layer will be paused. Other layers (for example, with the “Pause” menu) will work (however with Tween extension this does not work).
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    In this example, each object is on a separate layer:
    pause_layer

  • You can use the functions Pause and start a new scene and Stop and go back to previous scene to pause the current scene and go to another, and then return.
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