pause, stop or delay game start during count down

Question

In a game I am working on I wish to implement a counter at the start of a game and I want to pause, stop or delay all actions( animations, timers etc) in the game until the counter finishes counting and displays a label and the game actions resumes.

please how do I get around this?

Look into `NSTimer`: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1449035/how-do-i-use-nstimer — Abhi Beckert, Dec 12 '11 at 02:03
@AbhiBeckert : Thanks a lot man but I am using cocos2d so NSTimer wont suffice for now. — Zaki, Dec 12 '11 at 09:43

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Dec 12 '11 at 10:33

you can implement something like that

-(void) pauseGame  {
    [sprite1 pauseSchedulerAndActions];
    [sprite2 pauseSchedulerAndActions];
    [self pauseSchedulerAndActions];
}

-(void) resumeGame  {
    [sprite1 resumeSchedulerAndActions];
    [sprite2 resumeSchedulerAndActions];
    [self resumeSchedulerAndActions];
}

simply dont pause the label/sprite that is performing the counter. Keep in mind that pauseSchedulerAndAction will pause a Node, but not its childs, so you can easly pause a layer without pausing a counter inside it.

@Ultrakome: Thanks man...I will try this out and see what happens. — Zaki, Dec 13 '11 at 10:42

pause, stop or delay game start during count down

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