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2 options for easiest saving/loading of data:

  1. JSON Pro: Easy to read. Standard Con: Everything becomes a string, and often cannot easily be turned back into godot data structures like vector

  2. Binary Pro: Smaller. Easy to turn back into godot data structures Con: Not human readable

store_var() get_var()

suggested extension: .dat

  1. As strings

More reading: https://www.gdquest.com/tutorial/godot/best-practices/save-game-formats/ https://kidscancode.org/godot_recipes/4.x/basics/file_io/index.html !!!