I need help with a script to save the game

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I want to make a saving system for my game, that is, with a script I have to press a button so that when I exit the game everything is saved and so when I re-enter it remains where I was from where I am going to the things I did.
Thank you.

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Given the way you framed this question, I’m going to assume that you are aware of DataStores. Just in case you’re not, there’s numerous helpful resources about them out there, and they’re relatively easy to use.

With that said, you could use DataStores to save the player’s location, stats, and anything else when the button is pressed, and then load it when the player rejoins.

Edit: You will need to make use of RemoteEvents to trigger the saving from a ScreenGui button if that is your desire.

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Read this article, it may make it clear.

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Your solution to this is to use DataStores

Datastores have a datastore name, key, and value. I will talk about this in a second

This is how to access a datastore (Server script)

local DataStoreService = game:GetService("DataStoreService") -- Get the data store service
local DataStore = DataStoreService:GetDataStore("PlayerCash5632") -- Name of the datastore

Make sure that the datastore name is unique and won’t write on other people’s stores
The data store I am going to show you is a data store to save money

Saving and getting data

A data store has function such as DataStore:GetAsync and DataStore:SetAsync which can be used to load and store things in the datastore.

Datastores are almost like varribles but are stored on every single server in your game

To Access data

function GetSavedData(key)
     local savedData = nil
     pcall(function() -- Always put this in a pcall so if it breaks for some reason, it will not break the script
          savedData = DataStore:GetAsync(key)
    end
    return savedData
end

A data store has a key and a value.
A key is usually the user that is trying to save the data.
So for example this is what a datastore looks like

“Bob” = 34
“Laura” = 342
“Jack” = 30000
“PersonThree” = 34
(Not real usernames)

Saving data is mostly like getting data but its settings values instead of returning

function SetSavedData(key,value)
     pcall(function() -- Always put this in a pcall so if it breaks for some reason, it will not break the script
          savedData = DataStore:SetAsync(key,value)
    end
end

A completed data store code for saving money would be like this

Completed code (Saving money) 
local DataStoreService = game:GetService("DataStoreService")
local ds = DataStoreService:GetDataStore("Money34668478")


function SaveMoney(key,moneyvalue)
     pcall(function()
          ds:SetAsync(key,moneyvalue)
     end
end

function GetMoney(key)
     pcall(function()
          return ds:GetAsync(key)
     end
end

game.Players.PlayerAdded:Connect(function(plr)
      plr.MoneyValue.Value = GetMoney(plr.UserId)
end

game.Players.PlayerRemoving:Connect(function(plr)
     SaveMoney(plr.UserId,plr.MoneyValue.Value)
end

I made this quick there might be typos. Please tell me

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You probably want to use GetAsync instead of SetAsync in the GetMoney function.

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Yes! I just fixed it. Thank you for pointing that out

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