Saving and Loading a game

quinn221

Hi All,

I want to add a save and load feature on my game. I have looked in the forums and have a general idea how it works, but not sure how to put it all together. Has anyone came across a good tutorial on this subject?

nadir.alkarbi

You can use Save Attribute, Load Attribute behaviours.

Icebox

@quinn221 You have a save attribute and a load attribute , both behaviors are linked to each other

Save attribute: You save the Attribute to a key
Load attibute: You load the key to the attribute

The key can be named anything but it must match the save and load attribute

So for example if you want to save the Coins at the end of your level , You want it to save when the hero collides with the finishing point. Remember the key is just a name you put in so you can name it anything you want

So you will add a rule

If Hero collides with finishing point
Save attribute : Game.Coins to AAA

then in your intial scene you can place an actor with a load attribute behavior
Load attribute AAA to Game.Coins

In this example I called the key AAA , but you can name it anything you want , it should match the save attribute though and its case sensitive, so if I put load attribute aaa to game.coins it wont work.

Another example if you want to save game.score

Save attribute Game.score to AbAb

Load attibute AbAb to Game.score

and so on , hope it makes sense and good luck

quinn221

@Icebox1910 Yes it makes sense and seems straight forward... But nothing happens for me

Here is what I have going on. When my Hero collides with flag pole I have have 3 save attribute to

game.coins (key money)
game.playerx (key x)
game.playery (key y)

Then on my splash screen I have a continue button

Actor receive touch is pressed
**
Load Attribute **

Key: y Attribute: game.playery

Load Attribute

Key: x Attribute: game.playerx

Load Attribute

Key: money Attribute: game.coins

Am I missing a step?

Icebox

@quinn221 im not sure to be honest , are you using GS preview ?

quinn221

Both on my Preview and the GS Viewer...it should only work in the Viewer, correct?

Icebox

@quinn221 When I had this problem I deleted the save and load attribute and re did it , it worked , + you have to reset the game to check if it works on GS viewer , dont exit the viewer everything will restart. If you plan to test it on android viewer it wont work , atleast for me , I had to publish the game to check.

quinn221

OK, tried it still nothing...could it be because I am jumping from one scene to another. Saving my attributes in scene 3 and loading them from scene 1.

quinn221

I have been trying different methods all weekend and still no luck. Anyone have any tips or ideas what I am doing wrong.