Hello !
I’m currently working on a game that features “Challenges” or short levels packs with time scores.
It goes like this ;
Jump_01 Is a persistant level that have 10 sub stages, i call this a “Challenge”
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Jump_01-0
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Jump_01-1
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Jump_01-2
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Jump_01-3
Then i will have other Challenges Like Jump_02, Jump_03 or even Wall-Jump_01 and maybe Combat_01 and so on.
All of theses Challenges will have 10 sub-stages each. (Jump_01 is the persistant level name that contains the sublevels)
When the player start the level from the Menu, he loads Jump_01 and all the sub-stages.
When the player complete the first stage, a TimeBoard is shown, displaying :
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His current chrono time (the time he took to complete the sub-stage)
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His Previous Best Time (the player previous best time record)
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The Dev Time (the time i took to complete the stage)
It goes like that for all the sub-stages and when you complete the last stage (the 10th stage)
The game will display the stage scoreboard like usual, but when the player press a Key he will then be shown the whole level time board.
This Board will display in multiple lines the Current time, Previous Best, and Dev Times for all the sub-stages.
My problem is how to save and load theses values.
The current system i have works with a single Challenge level pack.
In my Challenge Savegame asset, i made float array variables for the time to be stored.
And when i need to check if the player time is a new record (and therefore needs to be saved) i get theses array variables that way :
So i have a Level to Time map, that uses an Array of “worlds” and that allow to know which sub-stage you just completed, then i know the index to search in the Array variables.
If the loaded level is Jump_01-05 then the index is 5, so i search the Best times Array at index 5 and compare it with the chronometer value and decide if i should save or not.
However this system is extremely cumbersome and i think it is overcomplicated.
It work for a single Challenge but it will become a headache when i’ll have 20 or more Level-Packs.
Also since i would love to have a lot of theses Challenges, its very slow to create the arrays manually for each levels.
I would need a way to dynamically create and save unique arrays for every Challenge (Level Packs) loaded.
So if i open the Challenge : Wall-Jump_01 it would create the Previous Best Times Array, The Current Best Times Array and populate them as i progress in the Sub-stages of my Challenge.
Is there a way to do that while minimizing the amount of tasks i have to do manually for each Challenge ?
Do you have other ideas on how i could handle that ?
