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“Pausing is a very simple state to implement.

All information flow is stopped and diverted to the menu that pops up. When you pause the game, you are changing the state of the game and the logic behind the game can carry out other tasks.”Ĭaine explained that the act of pausing is about instructing the software to stop processing new information. The game logic will continue executing while the game is in a certain state. “At any particular time, your game is running in a particular state. “Games and applications at their core level are effectively state machines,” said Martin Caine of Retroburn Game Studios, which makes games for Xbox Live Indie Games, Windows Phone, iPhone and Android platforms.

To answer it, we got in touch with an indie designer and programmer in hopes he could fill us in.

And so we’ve selected this question as the topic for this week’s column.

Last week, reader TehWise asked, “What is really the ‘pause’ in a game?” Which we’re choosing to interpret as “How does pausing work in a game?” We at GamesRadar feel a compulsory need to pay homage to this most sacred of gaming features, which has allowed us time to make countless sandwiches, and countless bathroom trips.