How to prevent Flappy Bird Clone from starting up automatically??

Windows
1

Hi all.

So, I followed this tutorial online [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrfPk7qRmVs] on how to make a Flappy Bird Clone using XNA. All works incredibly well, however there is one problem.

The game starts to play as soon as I click Run. Is there any way to stop this? I’ve added a menu, but the game continues to play on top of the menu as soon as I run it. I’d really like to load the menu first, then let the game begin to play.

Any help would be much appreciated.

2

I do something like

bool running = false;

public void Update(GameTime gameTime)
{
         if(running)
         {
             ...update game
         }
         else
         {
             ...update menu,
         }
}

public void Draw(SpriteBatch spriteBatch)
{
         if(running)
         {
              ...Draw game
         }
         else
         {
              ...Draw menu
         }
}

In the menu update if the Run button clicked then running = true;

1 Like
3

Hi,

Thanks for the reply. So do you write this in the main Game1.cs file?

4

Yes, where you call the Update & Draw methods for the game and menu.

5

Great. Do you mind helping me with what to change exactly? I’ve already written code, but don’t really want to create any errors when editing it right now.