Question

I have written the game. It starts at once, when running the program. EVERYTHING works in one Document Class. Now, I want to do some basic intro, for example, animated countdown before the game starts. How can I kinda pause the game? there is only one frame on the main timeline which contains the background.

Answer 1

If your animation based on the timer.

When start the timer:

timer.start();
last_time = getTimer();

when pause the timer:

timer.stop();
pause_timer = getTimer() - last_time;

when resume the timer:

last_time = getTimer();
timer.start();

Hope, it will helps you.