Add a pause feature

[meikpiep]

When playing Gauguin, I sometimes want to interrupt playing, avoiding the play timer to continue.

[DancingGeek]

Would pausing also stop you from seeing the board? Or is this more about 'turning off' the timer so that there isn't the sense of pressure that a timer creates?
I've played different games that use either approach and both are welcome.
For example, it could be that hitting pause is the same as pulling up the menu (but it also pauses the timer) or simply changes the screen to a paused game screen.
Alternatively, it might be that pause is more of a 'disable timer' option, but that would probably need thinking through about how it affects stats. Would it simply be ignored by the charts, while still contributing totals and streaks?

You could do both of course, with an option to turn off the timer, and a pause screen or menu if the timer is present but paused.

For my two cents, I think disabling the timer is the one I'd start with. I currently jump back to my phone's home screen if I want to pause the timer rather than leave it running while I'm doing something else, so there's a work around for that already.

If you do want a pause screen / menu to block the game when paused, I'd also think about what happens when a player goes into 'carousel' mode on their phone to switch between apps. At the moment, that lets me pause the timer, but I can still see the game board (in miniature). Perhaps the pause trigger would happen automatically when losing focus on the app?