So I have no idea how to do this but basically I want to find a way where when my player character hits a flag for the game to pause on that frame, and then fade out to a black screen. Does anyone know how to do this?

Wegen you hit the flag, set a flag (heh) in the code, and stop updating the have world in update, and render the face out fadeout in draw

Should have said in my post but I'm not a good coder, I know it's something to do through those functions but I don't know the code to use/where to start

Ah, sorry.

The game state (like movement, etc) should only be updated in update.

This allows you to make a giant if around then.

Another option, that might be more easy might be to use a different _update and _draw function.

Replacing update will make sure that nothing gets updated, and changing draw will allow you to simply draw the black areas on the last state, until it's black.

I'm currently not at my computer, will give you an example later.

No worries! And thank you

So, here's an example.

It starts in the "game state' which draws a lot of circles.
As soon as you press x, t switches to the fade out.
When the fadeout is doe, it switches to the exit screen.

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function _init()
    stuff={}
    local a
    for a=1,32 do
        add(stuff,{
         rnd(128),rnd(128), --x,y
         rnd(8), --r
         rnd(2), --dr
         flr(rnd(5))+8
        })
    end
end

function _update()
    local item
    for item in all(stuff) do
        item[3]+=item[4]
        if (item[3]>32) then
            item[1] = rnd(128)
            item[2] = rnd(128)
            item[3] = rnd(2)
        end 
    end
    if btn(❎) then
        freeze_init()
    end
end

function _draw()
    cls()
    local a
    for item in all(stuff) do
        local x,y,r,dr,col=unpack(item)
        circfill(x,y,r,col)
    end
    printb("press ❎ to freeze", 10,120, 9,0)
end

function printb(txt,_x,_y,c1,c2)
    local x,y
    c2= c2 or 0
    for y=-1,1 do
     for x=-1,1 do
        print(txt,x+_x,y+_y,c2)
  end   
    end
    print(txt,_x,_y,c1)
end

function freeze_init()
    freeze_frame=0
    _update=freeze_update
    _draw  =freeze_draw
end

function freeze_update()
    freeze_frame+=2
    if freeze_frame > 63 then
        exit_init()
    end
end

function freeze_draw()
    rectfill(0,0,128,freeze_frame,0)
    rectfill(0,127-freeze_frame,128,128)
end

function exit_init()
 _update=exit_update
    _draw  =exit_draw
end

function exit_update()

end

function exit_draw()
    rectfill(0,0,128,128,10)
    circfill(100,110,80,9)
    circfill(30,110,50,9)
    printb("the end",55,50,8)
end

@jmsnsh - it would be nice if you could give some feedback.

hey! thank you for this, i ended up going something slightly different using circfill instead of rectfill, but i wouldn't have got there without this code, very thankful for your help!

I know you used circfill (see my reply in the other thread), but there wasn't any feedback in the other thread, either, so I was wondering.
Glad it helped.

Sorry about the no reply!