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How should I go about unlocking characters? #2504

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This is a good question but I guess more of a general game dev question than a HF specific one. Does your game support saving or not?

If it supports saving then you can just use FlxSave to store an object of data:

{
  'characterOneUnlocked': true,
  'characterTwoUnlocked': false,
}

I would not suggest having using nested objects in FlxSave as I've had bad results with this, instead, I would say you should use a string of 1s and 0s

{
  'unlockedCharacters': '1, 0'
}

and then turn that into an array.

If your game doesn't support saves then you could store everything in a singleton that all the states in your game would have access to. I have a tutorial on how to do that here, although it'…

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