# saving game objects as file
**URL:** https://discussions.unity.com/t/saving-game-objects-as-file/660811
**Category:** Scripting
**Tags:** Scripting
**Created:** [April 6, 2017, 9:20pm UTC](https://discussions.unity.com/t/saving-game-objects-as-file/660811 "2017-04-06T21:20:50Z")
**Posts on this page:** 2
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### Author:  [@kelvin-w](https://discussions.unity.com/u/kelvin-w)
#### Post date: [April 6, 2017, 9:20pm UTC](https://discussions.unity.com/t/saving-game-objects-as-file/660811/1 "2017-04-06T21:20:50Z")
i have a nice file browser to save my data. together with stream writer i can save text based data. but i really want to save a gameobject and its children. in my project the user can make a house and it all gets stored in a parent object. how can i save the parent object so i could load it in when the load button is pressed?
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### Author:  [@methos5k](https://discussions.unity.com/u/methos5k)
#### Post date: [April 7, 2017, 3:57am UTC](https://discussions.unity.com/t/saving-game-objects-as-file/660811/2 "2017-04-07T03:57:12Z")
There are some Unity tutorials (and surely user posts, too) on the subject. Without repeating too much of that, have a look around for GameObject serialization or Unity serialization. Try that and see if it helps to start.