More options for "at that moment"
I'm writing a story, and I realized that I always use "at that moment" to start a new event.

For example,
He was playing Piano Tiles on his phone, flung himself on his luxury couch. "At that moment", the door opened with a frustrating creaky sound.

Are there any other ways to say that?

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More options for "at that moment"
I'm writing a story, and I realized that I always use "at that moment" to start a new event.

For example, 
He was playing Piano Tiles on his phone, flung himself on his luxury couch. "At that moment", the door opened with a frustrating creaky sound.

Are there any other ways to say that?

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Other options you could use would be, abruptly, unexpectedly, swiftly, suddenly, immediately, instantaneously, all of a sudden, in a flash, without warning.

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"(Just) as he was doing [...], the door began to [...]" is one transition that came to mind that I like.

Really there are countless ways you can transition between sentences like this. I remember as a kid in elementary school I got hung up on the expression "suddenly." It was awful—every sentence transition had to be "suddenly":
"Something something happened. Suddenly, something else happened!"

My advice is to read stories in English that are the same style you want to write in, and closely study how the author makes their transitions work.

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