Save highscore on corona sdk?

Question

I want to save the highscore created in the game and can be seen in the main menu when the player hits the highscore button, can someone help me?

Answer 1

You can solve your problem in a easier way..

Just declare a Variable for the Score like this..

local score=0

Then Increment the score variable by 1 whenever it hits the paddle. So Insert the coding in Collision Function as given below:

local function onCollision(event)
{
score=score+1
}
ball.collision=onCollision
ball:addEventListener("collision",ball)

Finally When you need to save your highscore (after gameover), You can use Preference instead of json which makes the larger coding.

local preference= require "preference"
local highscore=0

preference.save{highscore=score}

If you want to display the Highscore, then use the following:

highscore_value=preference.getValue("highscore")
display.newText(highscore_value,0,0,nil,30)

This might be useful for your problem !!

Answer 2

you can use SQLITE to save the highscore to database another way is make a file that write the score to a Text File and save it to the directory of the system

Answer 3

Multiple libraries exist for this purpose. GGScore is an open source library built by GlitchGames which can easily allow you to do this: GlitchGames/GGScore

All the documentation you need is in the main page (README.md) so there isn't really a need for me to explain the code. But it's really easy to use.