How should I go about unlocking characters?

[aflacc]

So I want to make a thing where you can unlock characters and then choose them, but I'm not sure what method I should use to actually track what skins are unlocked. Should I have an array or something for each skin or something or use variables for each skin

[RichardBray]

This is a good question but I guess more of a general game dev question than a HF specific one. Does your game support saving or not?

If it supports saving then you can just use FlxSave to store an object of data:

{
  'characterOneUnlocked': true,
  'characterTwoUnlocked': false,
}

I would not suggest having using nested objects in FlxSave as I've had bad results with this, instead, I would say you should use a string of 1s and 0s

{
  'unlockedCharacters': '1, 0'
}

and then turn that into an array.

If your game doesn't support saves then you could store everything in a singleton that all the states in your game would have access to. I have a tutorial on how to do that here, although it's not flixel specific:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vcRCgFcGUzQ

[aflacc]

Thanks for the suggestion! I actually found a really good way to handle the skins.

var skins:Array<Dynamic> = [ // actual charcater name | icon name | display text | locked | size | file reference
		['default','none','Default (None)',true,0.5,'default']
];

Works really well because I can assign as many values to each skin i want.
Its really good

Also yes, my game does use saving and I'm still working on the saving system but I have figured out a good way to actually change the values
Basically I'm just making another array which is bools only