How to make a pause screen in Pygame?

Question

I want to make a function where when I press p the game stops and shows "Game Paused".

Any help?

Answer 1

I suggest adding a is_paused boolean flag and add if not is_paused inside your update method to act accordingly (The update method is the method that is executed 30 times per second in your game):

Some pseudocode:

def update(screen, entities, is_paused):
    if is_paused:
        if is_clicked_button(BUTTON_TO_UNPAUSE):
            is_paused = False
        return
    # Logic on screen, entities and so on...