[Solved] Re-load a gamestate in HUMP

[NickRock]

EDIT:

The problem is solved thanks everyone!

I'm making an arcade game where when you lose you press a key to go back to the menu, when you go back to the "game" state it doesn't re-load it again but continues from where its left of

How can I fix that?

[pgimeno]

You'll need a way to initialize the game state externally, and call it when entering your game (and maybe in other places like after game over) rather than when switching states.

Or have a flag that says whether it needs initialization on state entry, and set it on game load and on game over.

[vrld]

state:enter() is called whenever you enter a gamestate, so you have to place to reset the state there, for example:

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function game:enter()
    self.level = Levels.load("level-01.map")
    self.player = Player(self.level.spawnPoint)
    self.score = 0
    ...
end

There is also a function that you can use when you need to do stuff only once before entering the state: state:init(). For example, you could load the map in state:init() and just reset everything in state:enter() to avoid reading in the level every time:

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function game:init() -- only called once
    self.level = Levels.load("level-01.map")
end

function game:enter() -- called every time the state is entered
    self.level:reset()
    self.player = Player(self.level.spawnPoint)
    self.score = 0
    ...
end

[NickRock]

I made a simple saving library for my game and it seems like it doesn't load the new highscore when I call the game:init() function
If you guys could help me find where the problem is that would be great.

Thanks.