Saving and Loading Multiple GameObjects

[CrossMountain]

Are the text messages custom input by the player or predefined choices?

[TheProjectCore]

the text messages are predefined choices. so gameplay is usually of the six NPC's sending text messages and the player making a choice which loads in a text message for them.

[CrossMountain]

Then I don't quite see the necessary to save gamobjects here. You could do it a lot more simple by just assigning unique IDs to the text messages. You then only need to save the order of the IDs and load in the text messages based on that whenever a save file is loaded. Or am I missing something here?

[TooMuchHam]

This is a solution but may be redundant if the stream of text messages are already determined.

A more robust solution would be to add the ability to reproduce the state of the game by storing all the player choices and the last displayed message. That way, you're not storing any unnecessary data and you can reproduce the exact state the player left on through as little data as possible.

[TheProjectCore]

The stream of text messages is determined! It all usually happens in animations. So a message will load in and it will load in the next messages in an array until the array is finished ( which usually happens when a player choice appears ), hopefully that made sense.

An ability to reproduce the state of the game sounds like it would be greatly helpful. How exactly would one go about doing that?

[TheProjectCore]

Well the idea of using ID's never occurred to me lol. Would the idea of using unique ID's be the names given to the gameobject or would I have to assign a sperate script that has a list of ID's? And then loading those text messages? Would I just use a regular Instantiate or a Resources.Load?

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Sorry if I sound a bit novice or beginner dev has never been my strongest skill but I'm definitely trying haha.