Storing data in Construct 2
This is usually the time when I teach you to destroy the enemies and add scores to the game. However, because the focus of this chapter is to store data from the game, we'll cover this first. There are four objects we can use to store data in Construct 2: array, dictionary, WebStorage, and XML. We're not going to cover XML in this book, because XML is a bit hard for beginners of programming, but only knowing the first three is enough for you to save data from your game.
Getting to know arrays
An array, in programming context, is a list of ordered things. An array can be a list of all text values, all number values, or a combination of text and numbers. In programming languages, arrays are written as a list of data inside a square bracket; so, in this book, I will also write an array in such a way. For example, an array of countries will be ["Canada", "USA", "Russia", "Italy", "Germany", "England"], while an array of numeric values will be [100, 250, 350, 150, 600...
