How to keep track of player's progress?

Unity Engine
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Hi,

I need to keep track of a lot of data for my game but I don’t know how to keep track of them.

There are 6 shop upgrades and each upgrade affects the player. And each upgrade has 3 levels and each of those has a requirement set of coins and gems to unlock.

6 other shop upgrades that focus on cosmetics.

There are 6 chapters in the game and each chapter has 50 levels and I need to store how many of them are unlocked and how many stars player has got for each of them.

I do know that I need to serialize them at some point so that is not the question, please do not point me towards it.

Thanks.

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There are more than one way of doing this and it’s difficult to tell which si the right one for your purpose without knowing the ins-and-outs of the project.

We made a game with savegame functionaliy save it to a JSON based format:

In the end we ended up refactoring that by writing classes for the things we wanted to save and just dump that to a binary format ( the c# standard binary serialization )

I recommend reading this article about the subject.

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Serialize with unity.
I would recommend making arrays
example

int levels[] = new int [50];

//then when you pass level 2
levels[1] = 1;  //1 indicates you passed level

//same with upgrades
int upgrades[] = new int[6];

upgrades[2] = 2;  //third upgrade is at level 2

//and so on