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Godot Engine Game Development Projects

You're reading from   Godot Engine Game Development Projects Build five cross-platform 2D and 3D games with Godot 3.0

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Published in Jun 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788831505
Length 298 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Main scene

Delete the extra nodes you added to your temporary Main.tscn (the Player instance and the test StaticBody2D). This scene will now be responsible for loading the current level. Before it can do that, however, you need an Autoload script to track the game state: variables such as current_level and other data that needs to be carried from scene to scene.

Add a new script called GameState.gd in the Script editor and add the following code:

extends Node

var num_levels = 2
var current_level = 1

var game_scene = 'res://Main.tscn'
var title_screen = 'res://ui/TitleScreen.tscn'

func restart():
get_tree().change_scene(title_screen)

func next_level():
current_level += 1
if current_level <= num_levels:
get_tree().reload_current_scene()

Note that you should set num_levels to the number of levels you've made in the levels folder. Make sure to...

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