Unity 5.x Cookbook

Pausing the game

As compelling as your next game will be, you should always let players pause it for a short break. In this recipe, we will implement a simple and effective pause screen including controls for changing the display's quality settings.

Getting ready

For this recipe, we have prepared a package named BallGame containing a playable scene. The package is in the 1362_11_01 folder.

How to do it...

To pause your game upon pressing the Esc key, follow these steps:

1. Import the BallGame package into your project and, from the Project view, open the level named BallGame_01.
2. In the Inspector, create a new tag Ball, apply this tag to prefab ball in Prefabs folder, and save the scene.
3. From the Hierarchy view, use the Create drop-down menu to add a Panel ...