Restart Entire Game

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Hi, I am wondering how I would restart the entire game. I know you can reload a current scene, but I need everything to restart, as if the game has just been started. Do you know how to do this? Thanks

Godot version 3.4
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Maybe create a second project that instances the first project using OS.execute()?

var pid = OS.execute(OS.get_executable_path(), [], false)

https://docs.godotengine.org/en/stable/classes/class_os.html#class-os-method-execute

And, when you want to restart, you'd just OS.kill() the first project's PID and then call OS.execute() again.

https://docs.godotengine.org/en/stable/classes/class_os.html?rtd_search=autoload#class-os-method-kill

There's probably a better way, because this is actually instancing two projects running at once, but that's what I could come up with.

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