Pause Menu keybinding problems

[k3lit0]

At the beginning of my game, right after label start: I have the following-

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$ _game_menu_screen = "game_menu"

This, for the most part, works. It takes us to the game menu which is a list of load/save options etc.

Now, after every chapter I have a persistent variable that notes that the player completed the chapter. Then, when the player opens the game they see a list of chapters with the completed ones available to be selected. All of this is working ok, you complete chapter 2 you can go to the chapter-select screen and select chapter 3.

However, it seems like this breaks my pause menu. So I put that same code defining the variable after each chapter label, and it still doesn't work. No clue what I'm doing wrong.

Is there a better way to tell the game that escape should bring up the screen game_menu? I also want escape to close the pause menu and bring the player back into the game, of course.

[philat]

What do you mean it breaks the pause menu?

[k3lit0]

What do you mean it breaks the pause menu?

AHa, I fixed it randomly after a week of being annoyed by this...

I had the menu going "Jump(label)" but it needed to be "Start(label)"

and that seems to be working. sorry for the waste of time...


but what I meant was the button was literally doing nothing.