Need help resetting game

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#1

Peace Unto You! I need help, may someone guide me to some video that clearly explains how to reset a game. I’m new to coding so I need a in depth guide on how to do it.

I don’t get how this is the part of my game that I’m having the most issues with. I don’t get how there isn’t a built in system reset in defold. It’s crazy. I only have 1 collection with my entire game, so the use of a collection proxy doesn’t serve for I only have ONE collection.

I need the most simplest way of resetting the ENTIRE game.

#2

I only have 1 collection with my entire game, so the use of a collection proxy doesn’t serve for I only have ONE collection.

The most common way is to use a collection proxy to reload a level.
This is essentially what the collection proxy is made for.

Another way would be to use a factory/collection factory to respawn your items when you choose to. E:.g “Delete all game objects” followed by a “Recreate all game objects!”.
This approach is much more cumbersome, as you have to track each object’s properties, and store them when the level starts.

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#3

There is a built-in method. It’s sys.reboot()

#4

Okay see my issue is this. I’m using a proxy but it isn’t reloading anything. So basically I got it to where when my player dies a game over screen appears, after 7 seconds the game is supposed to reset. But the only thing that happens is the game over screen disappears, and the game just keeps on running.

I made sure the proxy is in a new collection to not cause cycles, and I made sure the proxy itself has the main collection in mind, but it still doesn’t work.

#5

WTF IT WORKED!!! Okay so I’ve heard that this method may not be useful for HTML5 builds of the game, is there way truth to this?

#6

Not sure, we mostly run Android/iOS builds so I don’t know much about HTML5 builds.

#7

Okay cool yeah my goal is to fully publish the game, so I’m only using the HTLM5 build for testing on iPhone since I don’t wanna drop that $100 a year LOL but from what I can tell it worked.

#8

Oh and I’m testing it on the HTML5 and it appears to be working. OMG I LOVE YOUUUUU