What's goin on with the PAUSE feature?

THRSTN

hi dev team, just wondered if there's any update on when the pause behavior is gonna be available to us?

Eminem

I think they said its coming in the next release

MagoNicolas

They say the same for the last release. Lol.

tenrdrmer

MagoNicolas said:
They say the same for the last release. Lol.

Very true. Game Center Also. Theres prob not even a real update coming

quantumsheep

tenrdrmer said:
Very true. Game Center Also. Theres prob not even a real update coming

Before anyone gets confused, GameCenter is NOT coming in the next release.

Pause works really well in the new build (which some of us are testing). It'll be available soon, and I'm sure you'll all like it.

I do!

QS

VoidedSky

Can't wait for pause! Woo!
~CTM

THRSTN

sounds good i cant wait to see it, whenever that happens.

GamersRejoice

Consider me excited!

quantumsheep

GamersRejoice said:
Consider me excited!

Put it this way - I've already worked out how to put in an 'upgrade' screen into a game - so you can buy new weapons etc while the game is paused then go back to the game itself exactly where you left off.

It would also, I'd imagine, be really useful as an Inventory screen!

Excited you should be!

QS

tenrdrmer

quantumsheep said:
Put it this way - I've already worked out how to put in an 'upgrade' screen into a game - so you can buy new weapons etc while the game is paused then go back to the game itself exactly where you left off.

It would also, I'd imagine, be really useful as an Inventory screen!

Excited you should be!

QS

As in imaginary Buy new weapons or did you just let something else slip?

madmassey

Is there any indication as to how long these patches take traditionally to come out? I'm still in the early stages of my project and would love to use it to optimize some of my current stuff and make it more reliable... so instead of using timers to pause for an arbitrary amount of time, I could ideally pause a function until it meets condition A or condition B.

But, if it's going to be a month or more, I can't really afford to wait for it to drop... so I mean, what are the odds it will be out within a week or two?

jonmulcahy

Imaginary, in app purchase was on their survey for future goals

jonmulcahy

Mad massy,

They have said publicly that pause is coming in .9.1, and they also said in the "should i register as a Mac developer for the mac app store" to do it soon.
So i would expect it sooner than later

quantumsheep

tenrdrmer said:
As in imaginary Buy new weapons or did you just let something else slip?

No I didn't

I mean, as in, let's say you have a laser on your ship - you reach 10,000 points - you generate an 'upgrade' button on the screen.

Tapping the button pauses the game and takes you to an upgrade screen. Here you offer laser v.2 for 2,000 game dollars you made up.

You buy the upgrade, go back to the main scene exactly where you left it!

madmassey said:
But, if it's going to be a month or more, I can't really afford to wait for it to drop... so I mean, what are the odds it will be out within a week or two?

Fair to good.

QS

THRSTN

quantumsheep said:
Put it this way - I've already worked out how to put in an 'upgrade' screen into a game - so you can buy new weapons etc while the game is paused then go back to the game itself exactly where you left off.

It would also, I'd imagine, be really useful as an Inventory screen!

Excited you should be!

QS

(Single tear of joy.) that sounds wonderful.i hope its available soon.