How do I switch to another layout, "freeze" the initial layout and come back to it ?

Hey everyone!

I just started learning Construct 3 for my first ever game.

Let me explain the situation : my whole game is based on a main layout, a map with NPC's to talk to and mini games for each of them. When the player interacts with an NPC, I'd like to move him to a mini-game (which I made on another layout and event sheet) at a certain point in the dialogue. When the mini-game is finished, he moves back to the map and the dialogue resumes, and finishes. At the end of each conversation/mini-game, you can't interact with the same NPC again and the player must find the next NPC who will give him another minigame and so on...

There is 4 NPC's so I dont think it will be too "heavy".

I already made a .json array with the dialogues and made a loop that reads the dialogue well. But the problem is : I want the player to go to the mini-game in a middle of the dialogue (in a middle of the loop). I don't know how could I freeze/save the map layout, play the mini-game and then comeback at the exact same state. Or maybe there is another solution like making the minigame a global layer and put it on top ?

Here is a screenshot of the actual loop in the event sheet :

i.imgur.com/LJCXAyZ.png

"Jeu 1" is the mini-game layout. "FIN" indicates the end of the dialogue in the array. "GAME" indicates when to play the game.

Thank you for your time and help !!

Anything that needs to keep the same state you can assign 'Persist' behaviour, this means they remain in the same state as when you left the layout.

lionz thank you :) I put a persist behavior on all the NPC's + the main player sprite and it worked fine. Exactly what i needed!