Save Game/Level Conundrum

Hello All,

In my game, my levels are setup a lot like "Angry Birds" and/or "Wheres My Water" where a new level unlocks after you defeat the previous level.

I'm having a problem figuring out the logic.

I can't "add" to the level variable because replaying a single level multiple times would eventually unlock all the levels.

I can't "set" the number because replaying a previous level would re-set the number of levels cleared.

If this post makes any sense to you, please help me out.

Thank you for your time.

What you need to do is keep track of whether or not the level is completed. A simple solution would be to have one global variable for every level that is 0 if the level is not completed, and 1 if it is.

Then you should only add to your "levels available" variable if that levels "completed" variable is 0.

What I do is have a currentlevel variable and a highestlevel variable.

The current level is the one they're currently on, the highest level is the highest level they've unlocked (I set currentlevel when they choose a level).

At the end of the level I just do if(Currentlevel = highestlevel) then {add 1 to highest level).