{"id":194,"date":"2025-07-03T07:30:51","date_gmt":"2025-07-03T15:30:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tonybhimani.com\/programming-blog\/?p=194"},"modified":"2025-07-03T07:48:33","modified_gmt":"2025-07-03T15:48:33","slug":"game-tutorial-how-to-save-game-settings-in-unity-as-json","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tonybhimani.com\/programming-blog\/game-tutorial-how-to-save-game-settings-in-unity-as-json\/","title":{"rendered":"Game Tutorial: How to Save Game Settings in Unity as JSON"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ll cover how to give scriptable objects &#8216;memory&#8217; in this video, ensuring their data persists between game sessions. This can be used to save game configuration settings, storing its data in a scriptable object. We&#8217;ll serialize these values to a JSON file that you can save to disk. Upon the game&#8217;s next launch, these values will be read, parsed, and used to populate the scriptable object, as well as to adjust the controls.<\/p>\n<p>Source Code:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/gamedevwithtony\/Unity-Tutorials\/tree\/main\/Videos\/Data%20Models\/02%20Persistent%20Game%20Settings\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Unity Tutorials Persistent Game Settings<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"How to Save Game Settings in Unity as JSON\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jkKx5Ogm51g?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ll cover how to give scriptable objects &#8216;memory&#8217; in this video, ensuring their data persists between game sessions. 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