I am surprised that most games would unpause the game when a button is pressed. In games I have played like Street Fighter, and various games for the Wii, there is usually a back button which will resume the game, but there is often also a pause menu which can be navigated. Pressing directions or other buttons will interact with this menu. As I said in another email, the only reason I even mentioned this is because of the issue with trying to pause in the middle of another action. If there's no easy way of dealing with this, then fine. The last thing this game needs is another rewrite of a major part of its core. Karl
-----Original Message----- From: gamers-boun...@audyssey.org [mailto:gamers-boun...@audyssey.org] On Behalf Of Thomas Ward Sent: Friday, February 04, 2011 5:27 PM To: Gamers Discussion list Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Serious pause bug in MOTA Hi Tom, Yeah, I know. It is cases like this that really demonstrates how different growing up in a mainstream background verses a sheltered blind background can be. I've been playing games for most of my life, and in most cases when a game is paused if you press any button or action key it unpauses the game and resumes play. To me that's how things are. Then, one day I am sitting down to read e-mail and I'm getting requests saying I should use some sort of keyboard blocking that blocks all but the pause key. I'm not at all sure that's a good idea. That would mean while the game is paused no input is getting passed through to the application until the keyboard is unblocked. If the game ccrashes or something that could be a serious problem. Of course, there is a slightly better method that is instead of blocking the keyboard I rewrite most of the games functions so that if an action is performed and the game is paused it will ignore the request. This is safer than blocking the keyboard, but is A, alot of extra work, and B, different behavior than I'm personally use to. Cheers! On 2/4/11, Tom Randall <kf6...@comcast.net> wrote: > Speaking for myself this behavior is fine, this is similar to how most > mainstream games work if you try to perform an action say by pressing > the x button on your ps3 controler while the game is paused it will > immediately unpause. > > Regards, > > Tom --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
