Comments on: Coolness and Judging People’s Entries for LD24

By: RobProductions

RobProductions — Sun, 09 Sep 2012 18:49:45 +0000

Yes but that doesn’t “pause” the game–it’s still running. You can get killed if you’re not even playing. Pausing means setting the Time.timeScale to 0, where everything stops moving.

By: Jedi

Jedi — Thu, 06 Sep 2012 16:32:30 +0000

“ABSOLUTELY NO FIRST PERSON UNITY GAMES HAD A PAUSE SCREEN EXCEPT FOR MINE!!!”

Probably because Unity apps pause by default whenever the window loses focus. For the web player, by default, esc will release the mouse if it’s been captured, then you can click something else.

For a Windows build, you can use Alt-Esc.

By: RobProductions

RobProductions — Wed, 05 Sep 2012 22:13:52 +0000

Sweet I liked Doom! Unfortunately I’m on a Mac and can’t play it

By: mohammad

mohammad — Wed, 05 Sep 2012 21:40:18 +0000

Well that’s why my game is a first person but does not use a Mouse.
Its kinda like Doom.

By: RobProductions

RobProductions — Wed, 05 Sep 2012 20:11:50 +0000

No it’s necessary! (If its a first person game)

How else are you supposed to unlock the cursor? Change the settings for laggier computers?

I don’t know… but literally in every company first/third person game that locks the cursor has a pause menu!

By: Puzzlem00n

Puzzlem00n — Wed, 05 Sep 2012 19:54:07 +0000

I don’t really think pausing is necessary myself… It’s helpful, but not a staple.

By: sorceress

sorceress — Wed, 05 Sep 2012 19:41:52 +0000

Mine pauses while the window is minimized… at least I think that’s what I did. :/

And my close button safely terminates everything, so it isn’t like a force quit.

And I wrote my own tracker music.

By: laaph

laaph — Wed, 05 Sep 2012 18:35:21 +0000

As someone who is not wholly confident that I will finish the game in the weekend, fancy features like “pause” get last priority and probably won’t be completed (nor attempted) until after the compo. Or in this example, where I pretty much have ignored everything I planned to do after the compo, completely ignored.

Sorry but if my game were cooler I would revisit it and add “pause” and maybe a title screen and replace Unity’s standard dialogs and a long list of other fancy features.

Cheers!

By: mohammad

mohammad — Wed, 05 Sep 2012 04:01:03 +0000

umm check my game?