I need some help with my high score.,I need help with my highsore.

Questions & Answers
1

Hello, i am new to coding and just followed Brackey’s “how to make a video game” series. Now i am trying to add a high score in my game. I have got something working here:

using UnityEngine;
using UnityEngine.UI;

public class Dice : MonoBehaviour {

public Text score;
public Text highscore;
public Transform player;

void Start()
{          
    highscore.text = PlayerPrefs.GetString("Highscore");
}

void Update()
{
    PlayerPrefs.SetString("Highscore", score.text);
}

}

This is probably not the best way to do this at all but now in my game it saves the high score in the correct text but it does it every time the player dies ans does not save the highest score, just the previous one. Could someone explain how I can make this work as I can’t use “<” or “>” in an if statement because my score and high score are strings. Please help!

2

First, I guess your score isn’t a string, but rather an int or other number type.

You can use a property accessor, like this :

int _highScore = -1; // initialise at -1 so that you know when you haven't fetched it yet
int highScore
{
    get
    {
        if (_highScore == -1)
            _highScore = PlayerPrefs.GetInt ("highscore", 0); // default value 0
        return _highScore;
    }
    set
    {
        PlayerPrefs.SetInt ("highscore", value); // update value
        hsText = string.Format ("High Score : {0}", value); // update text
    }
}

string hsText = "High Score";