How to create a robust stats system?

Ves

This is about stylistic choices in Godot. From my look through the tutorials currently offered, they seem very limited in the scripting respect -- that is, they don't really reflect complicated scenarios of script-heavy game mechanics.

I'm curious for anyone who has had to build a script-heavy game mechanic, such as a character's stat or leveling system, how did you go about doing it? Did you make a "Stats" scene, and just child it to whatever character or object needed it? How did you reuse your system? Do your differing player/non-player/static objects inherit from a base character class that has the stats already available?

I'm still dabbling in Godot when I get the chance, and I'd really just like an experienced person's approach on complicated behaviors within the Godot scripting context.

Thanks for any direction/advice/discussion you can offer!

Tchey

Hello,

I've asked a similar question a few days ago. Got some advice, but i still didn't start anything yet.

http://godotdevelopers.org/forum/discussion/17679/what-would-be-a-good-way-to-do-players-skills

Avencherus

One method is to store your stats inside of the game entities, which they will be a scene file. Then using singletons, under the Project Settings, you can set up scripts that will manage all your global data. In there you might have a manager script that keeps your entities around from scene to scene. Such as an array of players and such.

http://docs.godotengine.org/en/stable/tutorials/step_by_step/singletons_autoload.html

The main characters, will probably never exit, so you can expect to increase their stats without losing them. If you have lots of objects that need persisting stats, and you can't or don't wish to keep them in memory, there are various options for saving and loading data through the game. You can save their stats, unload them, and later one when they come back, re-instance them and load their data back in.

http://docs.godotengine.org/en/stable/tutorials/engine/saving_games.html