Menu implementation with composer, or something else?

Solar2D Composer
#1

Hello, I’m working on a new game, say, in a pokemon style. So we have a world-scene. In this world, there is a pauze button, whichs shows the pause menu when pressed. In this pausemenu, there are several submenus, eg the FAQ. Then, in this FAQ menu, there are also sub-menus, for example movement and catching pokemon.

I’m thinking of implementing this with scenes and the composer, but since there is only one overlay possible with the composer, every sub-menu should either be an overlay over the world-scene, or we just use gotoScene(menu), and the world is then hidden.

But if we do that, the gamestate wouyld be lost (?), and I need to do a save and a load of the gamestate, to restore the world-scene to the state it was when the menu was activated.

This seems rather complicated, so I was wondering if other people have found a way to implement menus like this, or if this is the best method to go with?

Thanks for any help :slight_smile:

#2

Saving the game state isn’t terribly difficult.  If you use a scene manager like Composer, then when you goto your menu scene, just stop your timers, transitions, and music/sounds and pause your physics before going to your menu scene.  Then when you go back to your game scene, resume all of those things.

Rob

#3

Saving the game state isn’t terribly difficult.  If you use a scene manager like Composer, then when you goto your menu scene, just stop your timers, transitions, and music/sounds and pause your physics before going to your menu scene.  Then when you go back to your game scene, resume all of those things.

Rob