Pause scene and play sound

[Abel]

How can i pause a scene when time is up and play a game over sound.

[krunkster]

To “pause” the game you will probably need to move all the game logic into a condition that checks to see if the game is not paused. I wrote up how to do that for someone else here:

Is there a way to make a text box appear when an item is collected?

That “pause game execution” action is probably only for debugging purposes. I think I may have made it seem more simple to pause your game than it will be. It’s a little tedious, but here’s how you can do that: Create a new scene variable called “GameIsPaused” Take all of you current logic for your main loop (i.e. all the events) and put them into a new event group called “Main Loop”. Then put that event group under a condition like “GameIsPaused = 0” so that the main loop only…

You may also find it easier to just transition to to a new scene instead.

[Abel]

I see, there’s no easy way around this one

[beanmatt]

Have you tried the action “Change time scale” or “Change layer time scale”? I use this to “pause” the game for a few seconds when an item is collected, but you could definitely do it when time is up as well.