Making a Game with multiple levels

[Guest]

I'm currently making a game with over 100 levels. I have a level select screen where you can go to any of the 100 levels.

I want it so that only level 1 is unlocked first then when you beat it level 2 unlocks and so forth.

What's the best way to go about this?

I was thinking an external text file maybe like this:

Level1:Unlocked:UnBeaten

Level2:Locked:UnBeaten

Level3:Locked:UnBeaten

and so on

then when the levels are unlocked and beaten updating the text file. Is this possible?

Even making a class which stores level variables including beaten and locked.

I'm just not sure what direction to head in. A little guidance would be much appreciated.

[kglad]

you can use the sharedobject to store the last beaten level.

[Guest]

Thanks for the reply kglad. I'm trying to use a sharedobject but I cant find its location to see if it worked.

I'm running xp and I understand it should be at:

c:/Documents and Settings/username/Application Data/Macromedia/Flash Player/#SharedObjects

but I don't have anything in my Flash Player folder. 

Here is my code:

var so:SharedObject = SharedObject.getLocal("location");

so.data.saveMe = dataToSave;

so.flush();

I used a trace:

trace(so.data.saveMe); 

which returned the correct value

How do I check to see if its working? Thanks.

[moccamaximum]

The LSO is encrypted so you won`t have luck reading it directly out. It`s even hard to erase, you have to right-click on the flash player and set its storage amount to 0KB (default is I think 100KB). But that means also that its probably no good choice to store your information, since the user that has it set to 0K won`t be able to get to your 2nd Level.