---
title: "Store Scene Data"
description: "Demonstrates how to use the Scene Data Manager to store and retrieve custom key-value pairs at the Scene level."
phaser: "4.1.0"
size: "800x600"
files: 1
url: https://phaser.io/oss/examples/v4.1.0/components/data/view/store-scene-data
site: Phaser - https://phaser.io
---

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# Store Scene Data

Demonstrates how to use the Scene Data Manager to store and retrieve custom key-value pairs at the Scene level.

A Phaser 4.1.0 example in [Components / Data](https://phaser.io/oss/examples/v4.1.0/components/data.md). It runs at 800 × 600, and loads its assets from https://cdn.phaserfiles.com/v410. See it running, with its code, at https://phaser.io/oss/examples/v4.1.0/components/data/view/store-scene-data.

To run it, load Phaser 4.1.0 (`https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/phaser@4.1.0/dist/phaser.min.js`), then the file, on a page with a `<div id="game-container">`.

## Code

### store scene data.js

```js
class Example extends Phaser.Scene
{
    constructor ()
    {
        super();
    }

    create ()
    {
        //  Using the Scene Data Plugin we can store data on a Scene level
        this.data.set('lives', 3);
        this.data.set('level', 5);
        this.data.set('score', 2000);

        var text = this.add.text(100, 100, '', { font: '64px Courier', fill: '#00ff00' });

        text.setText([
            'Level: ' + this.data.get('level'),
            'Lives: ' + this.data.get('lives'),
            'Score: ' + this.data.get('score')
        ]);
    }
}

const config = {
    scale: { mode: Phaser.Scale.FIT },
    type: Phaser.AUTO,
    parent: 'game-container',
    width: 800,
    height: 600,
    scene: Example
};

const game = new Phaser.Game(config);
```

## More in Data

- [Change Data Event](https://phaser.io/oss/examples/v4.1.0/components/data/view/change-data-event.md): Learn how to listen for changes to specific keys in a Game Object's Data Manager and react by updating text or modifying values.
- [Data Values](https://phaser.io/oss/examples/v4.1.0/components/data/view/data-values.md): Demonstrates how to store and retrieve custom data on a Game Object, and use the 'setdata' event to respond to value changes.
- [Get and Set Data Values](https://phaser.io/oss/examples/v4.1.0/components/data/view/get-and-set-data-values.md): Learn how to use the Data Manager to store and retrieve custom properties on a Game Object.
- [Query Data](https://phaser.io/oss/examples/v4.1.0/components/data/view/query-data.md): Demonstrates how to use regular expressions to filter and retrieve specific sets of keys and values from a Game Object's Data Manager.
- [Set Data Event](https://phaser.io/oss/examples/v4.1.0/components/data/view/set-data-event.md): Demonstrates how to listen for and respond to the 'setdata' event when initial data values are first added to a Game Object's Data Manager.
- [Set Multiple Data Values](https://phaser.io/oss/examples/v4.1.0/components/data/view/set-multiple-values.md): Demonstrates how to initialize multiple data properties on a Game Object using an object and how to listen for the 'changedata' event to update UI elements.

---

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