Save Player Health and stats

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I am making a game where you get into random encounters and are moved to another scene where a turned based battle takes place. I need to save my players health for when he moves back into the world scene and then load it again once he re-enters the battle scene. I'm pretty new to javascript so please try to bear with me. Thanks in advance.

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Answer by BiG · Apr 23, 2012 at 06:50 PM

You can use PlayerPrefs!

 PlayerPrefs.SetInt("Health", player_health); //Stores the health variable

 player_health = PlayerPrefs.GetInt("Health"); //Retrieves the health variable

Another example here.

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Fabkins · Apr 23, 2012 at 06:57 PM 0

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Really? I wouldn't thought PlayerPrefs is the appropriate tool for save information. More for things like remembering your graphic , sound , etc options.

BiG · Apr 23, 2012 at 07:04 PM 1

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It's the appropriate tool. He has to remember informations between a scene transition.

Fabkins · Apr 23, 2012 at 07:10 PM 0

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And what happens when he want to store the inventory of character, what missions he completed, etc in the future?

He needs to effectively do a game save. I just don't think PlayerRefs is the appropriate approach to this. On Windows its stored in the Registry which gives some indication of the purpose of this.

zachary.collins · Apr 23, 2012 at 11:29 PM 0

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what would you suggest then Fabkins?

Fabkins · Apr 23, 2012 at 11:49 PM 0

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Saving it as a file. XML is often a good choice as its human readable and the there is some reference script:

http://www.unifycommunity.com/wiki/index.php?title=Save_and_Load_from_XML

That one actually also includes a save menu.

There is a good thread on the topic here:

http://answers.unity3d.com/questions/8480/how-to-scrip-a-saveload-game-option.html

If its really as simple as just a few stats then it is certainly cracking a nut with a sledgehammer and PlayerPrefs would do. But as soon as you need something more than just value pairs and require structure you need to write to a file.

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