So I have a game, in which player must collect certain ammount of collectible items.
Items will be placed on different levels/locations, and I’m looking for correct approach to handle following rule:
“item is picked up only once, and will not spawn later unless new game is started, while counter will store number of all collected items during current game attempt”.
As far as I understand, it would be best to have some kind of CollectibleManager GameObject that is able to handle
a) spawning items on current level if they weren’t collected previously
and
b) saving/reading data from savefiles on each collectibles’s status.
Main problem - there will be several hundreds of items, and Collectible Manager may become an abomination if it handles ID, position, rotation and bool isCollected for each item.
What have you tried so far? = What problem you actually have other than you would like to create such a system?
I don’t think storing information about hundreds of items in JSON or binary save file will be a problem.
Have a struct or class for item data that has all the fields you want to save. Then when saving, store each item into item data and add those to your SaveData class list which you then serialize as save file.