From 9b5317504a29b9c15ecc2540708a7ee94310d2b7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Fernando Castellanos <35811031+fernacas-dev@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2025 16:45:37 -0300
Subject: [PATCH] Add return statement after pausing the game

After Pause mode kicks in, we don't need to run the rest of this function. I was hitting a crash because the checks below this part were still executing
---
 .../snippets/gamescene/checkkeyboardinput.cs                   | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/articles/tutorials/building_2d_games/20_implementing_ui_with_gum/snippets/gamescene/checkkeyboardinput.cs b/articles/tutorials/building_2d_games/20_implementing_ui_with_gum/snippets/gamescene/checkkeyboardinput.cs
index 9952b252..45ec1309 100644
--- a/articles/tutorials/building_2d_games/20_implementing_ui_with_gum/snippets/gamescene/checkkeyboardinput.cs
+++ b/articles/tutorials/building_2d_games/20_implementing_ui_with_gum/snippets/gamescene/checkkeyboardinput.cs
@@ -7,7 +7,8 @@ private void CheckKeyboardInput()
         if (Core.Input.Keyboard.WasKeyJustPressed(Keys.Escape))
         {
             PauseGame();
+            return;
         }
 
         // Existing keyboard input code
-        // ...
\ No newline at end of file
+        // ...