Journal Entry 7: Pausing and Refactoring

Date: 16. 9. 2021

My first task today was the implementation of game pausing. After some amount of googling I found out that pausing the game is quite simple, all I had to do is setting the time scale to zero. Everything I did so far seems to be compatible with this approach, but to be sure, I added mechanisms to call custom hooks when pausing and unpausing the game. This will hopefully cover any possible use case that could show up during development. I also wired the button P to pause the game for now.

In the last few days I realized that my code has become a bit messy. I was mostly worried about random constants controlling the game difficulty scattered around the code, so I decided to set aside some bonus time for refactoring. However it took me much longer than anticipated, and I'm still not completely done, there is a bit more work to do mostly regarding walls. All of this time spent should massively simplify implement falling down to another platform once I get to that point.