Making a RTS game #46: Saving our game scene data… (Unity/C#)

Today, let’s continue our RTS and discuss serialisation for our game scene data!

⬅️ Tutorial #45: Importing models & animating our characters 2/2 | TOC | Tutorial #47: … and loading back our game scene data! ➡️

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A couple of episodes ago, we prepared a basic main menu to create new game sessions, and we now have a multi-scene workflow with cross-scene data.

But so far, we haven’t discussed how to reload a game once it’s been created!

So, today, we are going to see how to store the important data from our game scene into binary files, just like we did for our game parameters a while ago, so that we can keep track of the current state of our various game sessions. Then, next week, we’ll work on the counterpart and talk about loading back this data from the main menu, with a new “load game” panel.

Note: and afterwards, we’ll see in a bonus interlude how to take advantage of our map minimap screenshot tool to show the games’ updated minimaps :)

A quick peek at our save mechanism