Save scores on leaderboard using PlayerPrefs

Unity Engine
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Hi all, I’m posting this as i can’t seem to understand how to use the PlayerPrefs, or if there is a better way to save a few bits of data.

Basically i made a game where you get your score at the end, next to your name (which was typed in earlier). The leaderboard works fine, but once i navigate away from the webpage (or exit play mode in unity engine) it forgets all the high scores.

I am currently displaying the scores and names in guiText, so i want a way for them to save each time a new one is added.

I appreciate any help, many thanks in advance,

Unityyy

p.s i had a look through other posts before creating this one but couldn’t seem to tailor any of the other scripts shown to my needs!

2

Can you post the code you are using to save and retrieve the scores?

3

I’ve managed to get the scores and names saving locally now to my machine, but i want them to be stored globally, this is my code, quite a long way to do it inough but i’m not quite comfortable with arrays yet!!

static var score1: int;
static var score2: int;
static var score3: int;
static var score4: int;
static var score5: int;
var scoretemp: int;
static var name1: String;
static var name2: String;
static var name3: String;
static var name4: String;
static var name5: String;
var nametemp: String;

function saveScores()
{
PlayerPrefs.SetInt(“HiScore1”,score1);
PlayerPrefs.SetInt(“HiScore2”,score2);
PlayerPrefs.SetInt(“HiScore3”,score3);
PlayerPrefs.SetInt(“HiScore4”,score4);
PlayerPrefs.SetInt(“HiScore5”,score5);
}

function saveNames()
{
PlayerPrefs.SetString(“HiName1”,name1);
PlayerPrefs.SetString(“HiName2”,name2);
PlayerPrefs.SetString(“HiName3”,name3);
PlayerPrefs.SetString(“HiName4”,name4);
PlayerPrefs.SetString(“HiName5”,name5);
}

function Start () {
getScores();
getNames();
scoretemp = (NewBehaviourScript4.Total);
nametemp = (NewBehaviourScript13.stringToEdit);
if (name1 == nametemp score1 == scoretemp) {
scoretemp = 0;
}
else if (nametemp == name2 scoretemp == score2) {
scoretemp = 0;
}
else if (nametemp == name3 scoretemp == score3) {
scoretemp = 0;
}
else if (nametemp == name4 scoretemp == score4) {
scoretemp = 0;
}
else if (nametemp == name5 scoretemp == score5) {
scoretemp = 0;
}
else if (scoretemp > score1) {
score5 = score4;
score4 = score3;
score3 = score2;
score2 = score1;
score1 = scoretemp;
name5 = name4;
name4 = name3;
name3 = name2;
name2 = name1;
name1 = nametemp;
}
else if (scoretemp > score2) {
score5 = score4;
score4 = score3;
score3 = score2;
score2 = scoretemp;
name5 = name4;
name4 = name3;
name3 = name2;
name2 = nametemp;
}
else if (scoretemp > score3) {
score5 = score4;
score4 = score3;
score3 = scoretemp;
name5 = name4;
name4 = name3;
name3 = nametemp;
}
else if (scoretemp > score4) {
score5 = score4;
score4 = scoretemp;
name5 = name4;
name4 = nametemp;
}
else if (scoretemp > score5) {
score5 = scoretemp;
name5 = nametemp;
}
saveScores();
saveNames();
guiText.text = (score1).ToString();

}

function getScores()
{

if (PlayerPrefs.HasKey(“HiScore1”) == true)
{
score1 = PlayerPrefs.GetInt(“HiScore1”);
score2 = PlayerPrefs.GetInt(“HiScore2”);
score3 = PlayerPrefs.GetInt(“HiScore3”);
score4 = PlayerPrefs.GetInt(“HiScore4”);
score5 = PlayerPrefs.GetInt(“HiScore5”);
}
}

function getNames()
{

if (PlayerPrefs.HasKey(“HiName1”) == true)
{
name1 = PlayerPrefs.GetString(“HiName1”);
name2 = PlayerPrefs.GetString(“HiName2”);
name3 = PlayerPrefs.GetString(“HiName3”);
name4 = PlayerPrefs.GetString(“HiName4”);
name5 = PlayerPrefs.GetString(“HiName5”);
}
}

I was wondering if there was a way to be able to get a certain score on the game, then for someone on a different computer to be able to see it, preferably without using PHP, MySQL or anything like that, so something built into unity.

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There isn’t a built-in way to handle highscore servers, but there is an example of how to do it on the Unify wiki. (Unfortunately, it does use PHP/MySQL, etc…)