How to prevent a character from auto-loading?

Hello!

Question: I want to prevent the character from being added to the game, until the press the "Play" button inside my ReplicatedFirst script. How do I make this work?

I know it has something to do with CharacterAdded, and maybe a RemoteEvent, but all my attempts thus far have failed. So in my scripts below, I've only included the parts that do work correctly.

This is my Local Script inside ReplicatedFirst that starts the moment the player beings:

local Players = game:GetService("Players")
local Player = game.Players.LocalPlayer

script.Parent:RemoveDefaultLoadingScreen()
local PlayerGui = game.Players.LocalPlayer:WaitForChild("PlayerGui")
PlayerGui:SetTopbarTransparency(0)
 
local screen = script:WaitForChild("LoadingScreen")
local bar = screen.Frame.LoadingBar.Bar
local text = screen.Frame.LoadingBar.LoadingText
local button = screen.Frame.PlayButton

button.Visible = false

screen.Parent = PlayerGui
 
local count = 0
while count <= 100 do
 text.Text = count .. "%"
 bar:TweenSize(UDim2.new(count / 100, 0, 1, 0), "Out", "Quad", .01)
 count = count + 1
 wait() 
end

button.Visible = true

button.MouseButton1Down:connect(function()
screen:Destroy()
local PlayerGui = game.Players.LocalPlayer:WaitForChild("PlayerGui")
PlayerGui:SetTopbarTransparency(1)
Player:LoadCharacter()

end)

I don't want to delay/prevent re-spawning, just prevent the auto-spawn the first time the player enters the game. Any advice would be much appreciated. :) Thanks!

There's a setting in Players called CharacterAutoLoads. Once set to false, you use

<Player>:LoadCharacter() -<Player> is reference to the Player you want to spawn.