How Can I Only Save Score When Higher Than Previous?

JoshKahane

Hi

Its another one of those days where I am clueless. Hope you guys can help as you always do. I have a score which saves after each time I die but how can I get it to save only when its higher than the previously saved score? So essentially how do I save a high score?

Thanks.

butterbean

create attributes game.score and game.highscore

Create a rule if game.score is > or = game.highscore
Constrain attribute: game.highscore to game.score

Then create the save and load attributes as necessary and make sure in your "key" that the keyword matches the attribute EXACTLY as it is typed out including upper and lower case, and spacing if it's there

JoshKahane

Think I got it working, thanks Butterbean. Goodness me, I need more sleep and concentration. Thanks for coming to my aid yet again.

butterbean

no problem!

design219

Crap, I was actually able to answer this one, but butterbean beat me to it. Hehe. I had to figure out how to do that and came up with the same method.

quantumsheep

Butterbean - you're a star!

My high score wasn't working properly, and now it is! Simple mistake to make, but you put me on the right track!

'Constrain' indeed!

QS

butterbean

thank you! Glad I could help a sous chef like you!

It took me a day to figure that out, it was really weird, I couldn't figure out for the life of me why it wasn't working, then poof! Constrain attribute was the answer!

quantumsheep

Heh - that was certainly the missing ingredient - thanks again

butterbean

I noticed that only "reset game" makes the game.score reset, but reset scene doesn't

How do I reset the game.score but not the game.highscore when I want to reset the scene?

Crazybreadman

You just have game.score change attribute to 0 before it resets the scene and make sure you save and load game.highscore.