Webstorage (Save Game)

This is a CapX for those who want to save variables, it will just show you a way of doing it using the Web Storage plugin.

Aimed at new comers to C2

Tested in Chrome and works fine.

There's probably a better usage of this plugin, but i couldn't find alot of info about it.

Save Game Test CapX

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very helpful for me.

Thank you tonycrew <img src="smileys/smiley20.gif" border="0" align="middle" />

Awesome! this is what i need for my game. <img src="smileys/smiley42.gif" border="0" align="middle" />

very very useful...tnx a lot tonycrew ^^

Did you ever figure out the snap to grid?

So can it save the state of the entire game like variable values, object locations etc ?

Did you ever figure out the snap to grid?

Sorry no, i went on to other things...

So can it save the state of the entire game like variable values, object locations etc ?

It can only save variables, but can save level numbers.

CSV plugin can transfer a 2d table into a string, then you can store the string by webstorage.

BTW, Does there have "Hash" plugin to save value by a string key?

rexrainbow : That's pretty much the job of the webstorage plugin.

Also hashing saved game data would make it irretrievable, hashes are one way.

Thanks!

Nice topic for a tutorial!

if you don't have the time or motivation to make a tutorial, please let me know, I'll do it. I think lots of others will be helped with a tut about this topic.

MAD

tonycrew this will be working on game made for mobile phones /tablets?

delgado

(Tested only on Android 2.3+)

Phonegap works perfectly with webstorage.

Appmobi has some conceptual flaws that make it difficult to implement. Basically c2 assets are zipped during appmobi build and then unzipped on first execution inside the app data folder.

This leads to two problems:

1) Your app size is bloated (container + zipped assets + unzipped assets + cache)

2) Application updates pushed via appmobi update system destroy saved data.

I said "pushed via appmobi update system" because currently it's not possible to update a C2 application bundled with appmobi even using the new version number feature and, frankly, looking at the source of their containers I doubt will ever be.