Squid Game Related Player Count Body SurfaceGui

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#1

What do I want to achieve?

Related to squid game, I am trying to achieve basically body numbers for the players. So when they join the game, they get set with a number that is in numerical order. 0-456.

If you have watched squid game you understand they get numbers when they first start.

So I want a player to spawn in with a set number.

How could I attempt this?

What solutions have I tried so far?

Mainly looked at functions on updating player counts and everything related to that.
I mainly just need the basic knowledge of giving a player a certain number when they join. I already know all the rest relating to positioning, and displaying the gui.

local PlayersService = game:GetService("Players")
local txt = script.Parent

local function UpdatePlayerCount()
    txt.Text = "Players: ".. #PlayersService:GetPlayers() .."."
end

UpdatePlayerCount()
PlayersService.PlayerAdded:Connect(UpdatePlayerCount)
PlayersService.PlayerRemoving:Connect(UpdatePlayerCount)

How do I set a player a certain number on join?

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#2

Make a value and add to it when a player joins and subtract from it when player leaves, whenever value changes connect a changed event to do the update function based on the value.

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#3

Or you can just iterate through the Children of Players and add 1 for each player to a value n

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#4

Could you give me an example?

Like add to a value in a server script, or something like using replicated storage events?

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#5

It would look something like this:

-- serverscript
function set()
    for i,v in pairs(game.Players:GetChildren()) do
        if not v:GetAttribute("PlayerNumber") then -- if the player hasn't already been assigned a number
            v:SetAttribute("PlayerNumber", i);
        end
    end
end
game.Players.PlayerAdded:Connect(function()
    set();
end)

game.Players.PlayerRemoving:Connect(function()
    set();
end)

You could then get a player’s number (from client or server) with player:GetAttribute("PlayerNumber");

Additionally, you could make it a little more advanced by caching the numbers of players who left and setting those as high priority:

-- serverscript
local cache = {};

game.Players.PlayerAdded:Connect(function(plr)
    plr:SetAttribute("PlayerNumber", cache[1] or #game.Players:GetChildren()); -- set as number of player who left or as the last to join
    table.remove(cache, 1); -- get rid of it once set
end)

game.Players.PlayerRemoving:Connect(function(plr)
    if(plr:GetAttribute("PlayerNumber")) then 
        table.insert(cache, plr:GetAttribute("PlayerNumber")); 
    end
end)

Code has not been tested, but should work.

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