On Game State

Fires a pulse when the shared game state becomes the one you pick — the hook for "when the round starts" or "when the game is over". With edge exit it fires when the game leaves that state instead.

Output: event — 1 for a short moment (0.3 s) after the change, otherwise 0

Parameters

Parameter	Default	Options
state	playing	menu, playing, paused, over
edge	enter	enter (the game switched to this state), exit (it switched away from it)

How it fires

The game state itself is shared (see Set Game State). Each player's copy of the graph watches it and pulses this node on its own when the state changes. The pulse itself is never sent over the network, so each player gets exactly one pulse per change.

• Resuming counts as entering playing. paused → playing fires playing / enter just like a fresh start does. If something must happen only at the start of a new round, drive it from the Start button's own pulse instead.
• It is not a replay. A player who joins mid-round receives the current state, not the pulses they missed. Anything that has to be right for a late arrival — which screen shows, which camera you look through — is better bound to the state itself: a HUD screen's while setting (HUD Editor), a Game Start node, or Game Time playing.

Practical example

Keep each player's best score when a game ends:

1. Add an On Game State with state over, edge enter.
2. Add a Store Value (key mygame-best, mode max); wire On Game State → its trigger.
3. Add a Get Variable (name score); wire it → Store Value's value.
4. Every time the game reaches over, each player's device keeps the higher of its saved best and the final score.

Tip

Wired into a number input, On Game State reads 1 for the moment after the change and 0 otherwise, just like On Click.