This is just a basic no-muss, no-fuss class written in C# to help you create a savefile for your games. The term "savefile" includes any kind of saving data to disk, such as options, profiles, save slots, etc.
You just saved my ass, dude. It works perfectly and there's less end-of-stage save delay than my previous method. It's good shit and anybody else using MonoGame having problems should use it too.
- TheWhiteDragon
There are two implementations available:
- StorageDeviceSaveManager - Uses the StorageDevice provided by the MonoGame/XNA Framework.
- IsolatedStorageSaveManager - Uses the IsolatedStorage class provided by the .NET Framework. If you are targeting Windows Store, you also need this.
They both have the same functionality but target different platforms, so use the one that serves your needs. For example, IsolatedStorageSaveManager can be used without MonoGame.
The repository includes the source code for both as well as a sample Game1.cs demonstrating its use.
To create a new save file mysave.dat under the saves game folder MyGameName just do this:
SaveManager mySave = new IsolatedStorageSaveManager("MyGameName", "mysave.dat");Or this:
SaveManager mySave = new StorageDeviceSaveManager("MyGameName", "mysave.dat", PlayerIndex.One);Note that when using StorageDevice, you need to pass the current player's PlayerIndex (or null if it's a global save).
SaveManager uses a SaveData class that contains all the variables you wanna save:
[Serializable]
public class SaveData
{
public string playerName;
public int playerScore;
public bool levelUnlocked;
}You can put your own variables in there, even custom classes as long as they're Serializable.
To access the variables inside your save, you can just get at its Data:
mySave.Data.playerName = "Cool Dude";
mySave.Data.playerScore = 10000;
mySave.Data.levelUnlocked = true;And when you finally need to load/save it:
mySave.Load();
mySave.Save();It's that simple!
1.0
MIT. Do whatever you want with it.