How Do I Auto Pause When User Closes Game

uhyana

I tried searching for on answer for about half an hour and couldn't find one. When testing my game on my iPhone if I hit the home button and re-open the game, it starts at the main menu. I don't want it to do that. How can I make the game go to the last scene where it left off at when the user re-opens the game. Also, if the user is in the middle of playing on the game scene, I want to make the game automatically go to the pause menu if the user accidentally closes the app or gets a call. So when they re-open the app it goes to the pause menu and they hit resume. Does anyone know how to do this?

jckmcgraw

@uhyana

When you create a rule, one of the triggering options is hibernate.

jckmcgraw

@uhyana

I don't think that it is possible to trigger a pause menu, but as @TShirtBooth said, it will automatically pause it (in multitasking), and resume once the app is opened again.

That would be a nice feature added for the game to automatically go to pause screen.

jckmcgraw

@tshirtbooth

Could you explain what the hibernate feature even does? I have seen it, but I don't have any idea what it does.

Thanks

jckmcgraw

@tshirtbooth

Whoa that's awesome! So I could save attributes when the home button is pressed... not as soon as they are changed. Suite!

Thanks!

JohnPapiomitis

@tshirtbooth

Have you tested it? SSS said it was exclusively for nook, would be sweet though if it works on ios too.

JohnPapiomitis

Thats awesome man, thanks for sharing.

uhyana

Ok cool, thanks for all the info! I'm a newb, where exactly do I find "When Hibernate" ? Is it a behavior? Because I don't see it.

Zoyt

About hibernation... Does it occur when the "20% battery" window pops up and the user puts the device to sleep too?
Thanks and I wondered what that was.

JustMe74

Yep. I used it in my newest game on iOS and it worked as expected.

That's awesome. I had no idea you could do that, but I just implemented it in my game and it does indeed work really well...!