Saving top points/highscore without TSearial

[Charlie Gallie]

Hey, so I'd like to have my game automatically save my highscore into a file such as "data.sav" with a custom extension. I have already looked for other posts like this but they do not work in my circumstances.
Here's my code:

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if lost == false then
		if grow then
			love.graphics.setColor(0,90,45)
			text = "Larger"
		else
			love.graphics.setColor(0,40,145)
			text = "Smaller"
		end
		love.graphics.print(text,10,15)
	else
	
		--Shows the points when you die.
	    font = love.graphics.setNewFont("assets/STSYSTEM.ttf", 90)
		love.graphics.setColor(255,20,20)
		love.graphics.print("Your score was:",7,25)
		love.graphics.setColor(0,255,0)
		love.graphics.setNewFont("assets/ARBERKLEY.ttf", 90)
		love.graphics.print(points.. "!",7,45)
		font = love.graphics.setNewFont("assets/STSYSTEM.ttf", 38)
		love.graphics.setColor(4,142,255)
	end

Would there be a way of saving the variable "points" in a file and be able to load it back in and set the variable "points" to it without using TSearial? Thanks!

p.s. Please excuse my 'bodgy' coding, I'm sort of used to writing in java.

[zorg]

Hi and welcome to the forums!

Assuming you have no qualms about the 'data.sav' being in your save folder:

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local file = love.filesystem.newFile("data.sav")
file:open("w")
file:write(points)
file:close()

-- ... ,and elsewhere:

local file = love.filesystem.newFile("data.sav")
file:open("r")
points = tonumber(file:read(points))
file:close()

Most of the code from the wiki article: http://love2d.org/wiki/love.filesystem.newFile

I did skip a few useful things, like error handling and assertions; pen may return false and an error message, for instance, if the game's identity isn't set in conf.lua or through a function.

[Charlie Gallie]

Hi, I'm incredibly sorry it took 11 months to get back to you, but this works amazingly and I appreciate your help.

[zorg]

Hey, no worries

[ivan]

Zorg is correct, but it's easier to write:

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love.filesystem.write("data.sav", points)
...
points = love.filesystem.read("data.sav")
points = tonumber(points)