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Gamification with Unity 5.x

You're reading from   Gamification with Unity 5.x Build exhilarating gaming experiences using a wide range of game elements in Unity 5.x

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Product type Paperback
Published in Nov 2016
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781786463487
Length 328 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Lauren S. Ferro Lauren S. Ferro
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Table of Contents (11) Chapters Close

Preface 1. The Anatomy of Games 2. Who or What Am I? Understanding the Player FREE CHAPTER 3. An Engaged Player is a Happy Player 4. Organized Chaos - Getting Ideas Out of Your Head and on to Paper 5. Sculpting the Conceptual Beast 6. Breathing Life into Your First Creation - Creating and Importing Assets for Your Application 7. Get Your Motor Running 8. Break, Destroy, and Rebuild - the Art of Playtesting and Iteration 9. Graduating Your Project to Completion 10. Being the Best That You Can Be!

Data persistence in our application


In the previous chapter, we implemented most of the logic of our application. However, every time the user closes the application, all their tasks disappear. This is because our application is not persisting data.

To make data persistent, we need in some way to store it. The first intuitive way is to store the data locally, which means saving to a file.

PlayerPrefs in Unity

Unity offers a quick and easy way to store data persistently by using PlayerPrefs, a special class where there are functions to save primitives, such as integers or strings. In the following examples, we will work with strings, but the process is the same for all the other primitives.

The Set function

It is possible to save the data by using the following line:

PlayerPrefs.SetString("Your Key", "Your Value"); 

Basically, it takes a key and a value. The key is important, because we need it when we need to get the value back, maybe in another session (the user used the application, closed...

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