# View Controller

One central service is the View Controller service which is an interface towards certain rendering functionality

## Pausing a game

You can pause a game using the View controller which will pause the rendering loop that runs every frame. It will also pause the processing of player input.

To pause, you simply have to set the paused property to true. To resume the game, you would similarly just set it to false. You can do this from a service, actor or in the UI.

```typescript
@Service()
class PlayerController {

  private view = inject(ViewController)

  pause() {
    this.view.paused = true
  }
  
  resume() {
    this.view.paused = false
  }

}

```


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