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Hello, I have been developing demo games for a while with Unity and now I believe I’m ready to publish a game. Right now, I’m developing a 3D tower defense game but instead of building levels, I created a script to randomly determine the map for me. I will also offer an option for players to recreate the map on levels in exchange for gold.

I wonder how can I copy these maps to levels. I have five zones with 100 levels each and each level has different requirements (such as level 1-10 has only one spawn point and maximum 30 areas to build towers).

Since players may want to play completed levels again, I’m planning to use PlayerPrefs API. However, I wanted to get opinions from you guys as well. I’m not sure whether I can do it with PlayerPrefs, is there any other concepts I need to know to search for and learn?

Thanks in advance.

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Do i understand this correctly? You have 500 Maps and want to assign them to a level on a 1 to 1 basis?
And you want to do something with PlayerPref (maybe a highscore?).
I cant give an answer because your text does not explain your situation well enough.

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The Feature Request tag is usually reserved for things you want Unity to add to their libraries, I believe the correct tag for this one would be Feedback.

From what I gathered, you just want to know about other methods of saving values? You could always just serialize the object into and save it as a file, although I don’t really see how it would be any better than using the PlayerPref. One benefit to serializing it though, is that you could send it to a server for online capabilities such as map sharing.

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Thanks all for your replies. I’ve totally misunderstood Feature Request tag and changed it.

I have one script called MapGeneration, which I’m planning to turn it into namespace. This script generates a random map according to the predefined restrictions.

I will create another script for levels and use the same script for all levels but change certain restrictions and monsters.

How can I successfully save the maps created for users? I’m planning to save the data on a server and I thought PlayerPrefs will do the work but I wanted to know whether is there any better way to do so. However, it according to your answers, there is not better way too :slight_smile:

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You probably want to serialize the object to json. That way you can use an easy web api.

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Thanks a lot, I think this is what I should search for and learn more.