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Zander Brumbaugh
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Zander Brumbaugh is an independent programmer, project manager, and game designer. The games he has made or contributed to have been played more than 300 million times. Some popular titles include My Salon, Power Simulator, Munching Masters, etc. With the games he has created, he has been able to create a successful business while in college; he currently attends the University of Washington and is part of the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science and Engineering. At the time of writing, Zander is 19 years old.
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Managing player data

Managing player data will be very easy now that you have already created a reusable datastore system. All you need to do is parent the Data module you created in the previous chapter to the ServerHandler script. When making experiences of your own design, you can similarly copy and paste this module. Do remember to enable the Enable Studio Access to API Services setting in the Security tab of the Game Settings menu.

If you did not follow the tutorials of the last chapter, you will need to go back to the Managing player data section of Chapter 5, Creating an Obby, in order to continue with the following steps. Once you have completed that section and its associated parts, you can come back without following any other steps in that chapter.

For this experience, we will need to make some small edits within the Data module pertaining to what data we keep track of. In the last chapter, we only kept track of the player’s current stage and...

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Zander Brumbaugh

Zander Brumbaugh is an independent programmer, project manager, and game designer. The games he has made or contributed to have been played more than 300 million times. Some popular titles include My Salon, Power Simulator, Munching Masters, etc. With the games he has created, he has been able to create a successful business while in college; he currently attends the University of Washington and is part of the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science and Engineering. At the time of writing, Zander is 19 years old.
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