Unity 2D Platformer for Complete Beginners - #15 PAUSE MENU

In this episode we'll add the ability to pause the game and a pause menu with some cool options like changing the volume of the sounds and music. We'll also discuss regions and PlayerPrefs.
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0:00 Intro
0:13 Pausing the Game
5:25 Menu Options
6:26 Changing the Volume
17:37 Volume UI Display
20:55 Final Result
21:14 Shoutout and Credits

[@PandemoniumGameDev]

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to everyone! 🎅🎄 If you're having issues with the code or the project here's the link to the GitHub repo: github.com/nickbota/Unity-Platformer-Episode-15

[@ahmadeshon9347]

Hello Pandemonium, great video tutorial very helpful. I was wondering if I could use this project that i programmed using your help with a few different additions as my own game and upload it on Steam. Would I need to have rights for everything included in this project or is it free to use?

[@PandemoniumGameDev]

@@ahmadeshon9347 Hey Ahmad 👋Feel free to use the code as you please. The graphical assets and the music you have to check though, go to the asset store and see if they have any specific license conditions. I remember surely that the background music requires attribution for both commercial and free use.

[@HermitBearGames]

One of my New Year's resolutions this year is to finally make at least 1 game and your videos are making the process much easier to understand and work on! Thank you so much for the videos you make and I hope you continue in the future!

[@PandemoniumGameDev]

I'm sure you'll achieve and even surpass it! Glad to help and sure, next episode coming soon :)

[@mateozovic1800]

Great video as always, just finished the series, waiting for the next one! Keep doing awesome job 😁

[@UA_stud]

As always, fantastic video! Thank you for keeping this series alive! It's the best Unity2D tutorial series on KZbin.

[@AdrenalSnakeREX]

just finished this great vid and got everything i need to start my very first game! Great tutorials, i hope you make more of these for more interesting stuff to add in games

[@shankodawgy]

Great work dude! You put a lot of time and effort into this, was a great way to get familiar with Unity again :). Appreciate it!

[@scorpiusjones5436]

Thanks so much for this tutorial series! It was fun and learned a lot along the way!

[@waltersattazahn1480]

Great video. Got everything working and I like how the numbers give the player/user an idea of what the sound level will be at.

[@PandemoniumGameDev]

Thanks Walter! Now that you mention it, it would be funny to make a game where the player has no idea what the options are 😅

[@adarshsahu6724]

This is the best Unity sound manager tutorial presented on KZbin. Thank you

[@PandemoniumGameDev]

Thanks for the praise!

[@ChadEricCartman]

Gold mine channel, learnt so much. Your videos are so awesome and thorough. Honestly, I know its a lot to ask but hope you make a 3D game guide too soon

[@vma4444]

Thank you this fantastic tutorial series i did it all along and i finnaly finished! You said you would add a boss that would be really good.

[@ryanoneill9862]

Thank you so much for all the help man, im making a game for my university project and this series has really helped me get into unity. So glad the series is back. I was wondering if you are going to make a tutorial on how to make a main menu screen that you see when you start the game? Again thanks for all your help and i cant wait to see more from you!

[@aluizioneto8126]

Same for me bro !

[@aluizioneto8126]

Have you managed to make a main menu screen Ryan? I wanna make one myself too

[@Lucario445MC]

Just finished watching the playlist, while following along and learning a lot about Unity programming, I can't thank you enough for the amount of work you put in that project and series! I gotta ask though, we were able to see a pretty nice main menu at the start of this last episode, sadly, we didn't get to listen to your explainations on how you arrived at such a result. I could see in the GitHub repo that the files do contain the Main Menu and a Menu Manager script, was this an oversight from your end or were you planning on releasing another episode covering the subject? I have no doubts that with the knowledge you already shared and the script available on GitHub, I'd be able to figure out how to make it work, but some people might not notice this.

[@Larrto.]

I caught up. was a good binge tutorial. - good code practices (consistent naming scheme, avoiding repetition, logical implementation for projectiles, etc) - game is actually fun - memes -san andreas mission complete outro

[@BillSoutherland]

Excellent tutorial series, thank you very much for your time and effort.

[@PandemoniumGameDev]

Thanks for the kind words, highly appreciated!

[@koraninduangmala1181]

Great video, Great series, Thanks for tutorial.

[@thendimension4816]

thanks brother you are helping us a lot

[@lvdzzz]

ty so much im preciate all of things u made for us

[@SSMLivingPictures]

YAAAAASSS! Merry Christmas to us! Another Pandemonium vid!!! 🎁🎁🎁

[@PandemoniumGameDev]

Happy coding!🎅Glad people still wanna watch these vids 😁

[@SSMLivingPictures]

@@PandemoniumGameDev Love em! I've watched and re watched many of them. Im making a game with my 7 year old son, Im trying to get him into coding

[@PandemoniumGameDev]

@@SSMLivingPictures Good luck to both of you! 🙌

[@SSMLivingPictures]

@@PandemoniumGameDev Thanks!

[@Myotiss22]

I've just completed the tutorial, and I sincerely appreciate this work of yours. As a beginner, I'm aware of the difficult and complicated development of creating a game. Even bringing up a simple looking concept is a huge effort itself. Thank you for making my inception to this long way. Now go and make some good games folks😉

[@PandemoniumGameDev]

Very well said and thanks for the props!

[@blackblurgaming9760]

Thank you so much for this guide! I recently took up a task for creating a project for my science exhibition in my school and since my subject of choice was computer science I thought why not make a game instead of building robots or using arduinos to make the same repetitive projects everyone does . Inspite of you not showing how add a win screen and a main menu I still figured it out on my own with a little bit of help from chatGPT ;) and guess what I won the first prize!! This wouldnt have been possible without your guides so Im utterly grateful to you ❤❤ P.S : I didnt outright copy your game instead used some of my own ideas and created my own main character, traps, made my own level design and even made my own music using groovepad only assets i did use were the free platforming tiles

[@RaulGarciaa10]

thank you for everything, new sub.

[@PandemoniumGameDev]

Thank you!

[@thanhnamle5737]

Thank man. It is fantastic series for beginner

[@PandemoniumGameDev]

Very glad to hear that, thanks for watching!

[@Catattack_]

@@PandemoniumGameDev how do you make more levels?

[@turtlegod1013]

Is there a way for the Selection Arrow's x position to change depending on which option it is pointing to? So that it is a specific distance left of the text. For example the x position when it is pointing to Restart will be higher than when it is pointing to Main Menu, but the distance between the Selection Arrow and the option text will be consitient

[@AdrenalSnakeREX]

just noticed this near the end, but what happens with the MenuManager script you have in the UI script folder? you didnt mention it at all in this video or the previous one

[@XecuteLostWave]

sorta dissapointed you stopped this, theres still things you never went over, like a start menu for example. aswell as how to turn it into multiple levels, hopefully you come back soon to make more videos! as these are the best tutorials for this game style in my opinion, very easy to follow, while still explaining everything your doing so i can still learn and not just copy/paste!

[@Dev_CHA2]

i made a few levels but for the ending i made it when u collide with a object it takes you to a new scene it works but when im in the new scene the pause menu does not work?

[@alexandrerodrigues264]

hello, for now i want to thank you for all the tutorials so far, i'm on a final school project and i'm making your game, could you release the next episode please. Thank you for everything

[@StigDesign]

Merry Christmas and happy new year :D🎄 Great to see new video :D HeHe think i need to rework my own project with the region endregion hehe to make it easy to work on hehe :D

[@PandemoniumGameDev]

Merry Christmas Stig! Regions are cool but not necessary at all, so it's up to you :D

[@StigDesign]

@@PandemoniumGameDev hehe yes i know :D

[@DizzyPlay_official]

Go next))

[@Egor-kc2dx]

Good video bro

[@hautranuc6936]

Hello, thanks for tutorial! Are you planning to continue this series?

[@quinnger]

What video was the UI Manager script attached to the UICanvas made in?

[@acegarner3248]

Any idea when a new video for this series will be uploaded please

[@pepe4188]

Hey bro, where can I get ready-made code for these games to copy? can you give me a link please??

[@TheShutupandgame]

So whenever I hit the mouse down while on the pause menu a fireball starts to shoot in the game anyone know a fix to this?

[@jasonnjoroge7947]

Hello Pandemonium. Kindly help on how to link the game levels 1, 2 & 3. thank you

[@lpa1970]

Hey man great tutorials When are you going to upload the next vid im super excited Can you teach us like some kind of ending or credits in the next video pls

[@ParaEmpresa]

In the updated versions of Unity, it defaults to "Text Mesh Pro", so it is likely to have problems trying to display the volume level of music and sounds. What worked for me was to import another library "TMPro", I attach my script. Assets>UI>VolumeText using UnityEngine; using TMPro; public class VolumeText : MonoBehaviour { [SerializeField] private string volumeName; [SerializeField] private string textIntro; //Sound: or Music: //private Text txt; private TextMeshProUGUI txt; private void Awake() { txt = GetComponent(); } private void Update() { UpdateVolume(); } private void UpdateVolume() { float volumeValue = PlayerPrefs.GetFloat(volumeName) * 100; txt.text = textIntro + volumeValue.ToString(); } } I appreciate your excellent videos bro

[@PandemoniumGameDev]

Good tip, and thanks a lot for the support! 🙌

[@scorpiusjones5436]

Thanks very much for this tip! I was stuck on this as the last thing I was trying to finish and having trouble finding a solution. This works perfectly, thanks again for taking the time to share it here!

[@user-vn7bg7nj8l]

In the game, when moving and standing in a trap area, my character is only damaged once. How do I fix it?

[@jcrj28]

Thank you so much for this tutorial, i have learned a lot, i only have one issu and i wanted to ask you about it, my player its getting stuck between the collision of the room 1 and room 2 and i dont know why

[@UA_stud]

Previously Pandemonium mentioned that this can happen at boxcollider2D intersections. If you have two separate ground sections for each room, this is likely the problem. I had the same issue, and fixed it by using one boxcollider2D for the entire ground area.

[@ushas3349]

Hi, Its a great series. I learnt a lot through these episodes. I am new to unity. But your explanation is really good. I have one issue in the last episode. When running null reference exception for the volumetext. It does not return any text for both sound and music volume. Went by your scriot only. Could you give me hint to solve. Looks like txt object does not have reference. The screen goes blank!! Thank you for the wonderful series. Usha

[@AlexeyAmadeas]

My code completely repeats yours, but each text writes the volume value: 0. I'm trying to figure out the problem on my own, if successful, I'll let you know what went wrong. Merry Christmas!!!

[@adrianrags7915]

Hi can i ask you how to create play menu i saw it in your video but there is not code on how you do it can i ask for it?

[@gokuization]

Would you like to teach us how to make a pendulum trap with a spike ball in the future? 😊😊

[@duyha2454]

thank you very much

[@PandemoniumGameDev]

You're very welcome!

[@DizzyPlay_official]

Когда следующий урок?

[@maksimuz3640]

What Unity version you work when i download your ready project from github Unity changes all objects with error that the project for snatcher Unity version

[@turtlegod1013]

usually unity tells you which editor version is required to run the project

[@acegarner3248]

when will the next video be released please

[@mahmutkaan]

Can we see save system from you? 😅 It would be great and instructive.

[@saifgames2468]

Can you also complete the hyper casual game serie thank you !!

[@PandemoniumGameDev]

Working on episode 3 right now!

[@Dev_CHA2]

this project is great but i was wondering how to add more levels?

[@bshnaz5331]

Create a new scène and link it like u did with the menu one

[@atTran-fb4wt]

Great tutorial!!! How we can do in the next time ?

[@PandemoniumGameDev]

How can we do what?

[@olegpetrovic]

Come baaaack

[@dino_x86]

youpi I am a 15 year old teenager who is creating a video game under Unity and I am following your tutorials for a long time with great pleasure. are you going to continue your series?

[@PandemoniumGameDev]

Hey there, glad you're finding it useful! Yes, there are 3 more episodes left: main menu, level progression and a boss fight

[@KINGGAMES-qd8sn]

@@PandemoniumGameDev can you do these ep in next months

[@PandemoniumGameDev]

@@KINGGAMES-qd8sn I will

[@SSMLivingPictures]

@@PandemoniumGameDev Take your time Pan, we appreciate what you do!

[@huntingyou5098]

@@PandemoniumGameDev thank you so much

[@muhammadfahadchaudhry4968]

sir when we're get new video of this game please upload as fast as you can sir :) , btw new subscriber.

[@aveggoyalvines5285]

What about main menu??

[@shadowlander468]

Add level select screen please. Thx in advance.

[@digiartakash7943]

please can you add melee attack

[@turtlegod1013]

I think in this game because of the dragon sprite, he decided to only go with a ranged attack. There was no animation set for a melee attack. But if you remember how to make the melee attack from the Melee Enemy, I'm sure you can find or make a sprite that uses melee attacks and create one with it.

[@HelloWorld-zg4bh]

We wanr hyper casual part😕

[@PandemoniumGameDev]

Check my latest community post, it's already out on Patreon and coming to KZbin in about 6 hours

[@PoisonedAl]

A lot of "draw the rest of the f'ing owl" here. Which was annoying as I knew most of everything except the parts you glossed over.

[@jackpelon9852]

Hello friend @Pandemonium, I have a problem, and tried to make a stalactite that detects the Player and then falls. So far I have achieved it but what I cannot do is make the stalactite hit the ground trigger the breaking animation and after 2 seconds the stalactite should appear again on top of the ceiling smoothly and be ready in case the player I went back there and detected it again and fell again... Could you make a video tutorial about that? I will be very very grateful friend @Pandemonium.🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

[@jamieparkin7054]

i got to about the 11 min mark everything was working and my PC crashed i had saved the unity code as i was going along but not the unity project, when i restarted the project i remade the pause menu and re linked all the functions that was missing but now the background music doesn't work and when i press E in the menu the game freezes and the player doesn't do anything now. I had my friend help to debug the script and the script is working perfect so i download the git hub copy everything is working fine so the issue is with my unity project i even asked chat GPT and the AI can't fix it. please help if you know how to fix this. and this is the only error i get DontDestroyOnLoad only works for root GameObjects or components on root GameObjects. UnityEngine.StackTraceUtility:ExtractStackTrace () SoundManager:Awake () (at Assets/Scripts/Core/SoundManager.cs:18)

[@lillehoff]

[@edgexcution7108]

Hello, thanks for tutorial! Are you planning to continue this series?

[@PandemoniumGameDev]

I plan on adding a main menu, a level switching system and a boss. So probably 3 episodes left here

[@edgexcution7108]

@@PandemoniumGameDev Thanks for answer, I'll be waiting for new videos. Good luck and Merry Christmas!