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jjmafiae
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save system

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im making an open world game( 2d,singleplayer) and i need a save system can someone help me?
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Well, there are a few things you could do ;) You could tell the system to save every few seconds or minutes with love.timer.getTime and write the player's position and, you know items, quests etc... in a file with love.filesystem.write . You could also just have a menu that will pop up when the player presses on ESC and there he could save. Then you will use the same system of writing it in a file. Is that what you were looking for?
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yes, thanks :D
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You can save your stuff in a table, and serialize it into a file. Serialization is a process that turns something into strings so it can be converted back into data. You would need to create a function or use a library that converts the strings into data again.

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jjmafiae wrote:im making an open world game( 2d,singleplayer) and i need a save system can someone help me?
Bascially, you want to serialize your data, and then use the love.filesystem functions to save and load the data.

For more structural, smaller, and faster serialization formats, consider using:
  1. JSON4Lua (My Favorite!)
  2. Other Lua serialization libraries.
For more legible serialization formats, consider using:
  1. an INI parser (bartbes has a nice one here.)
  2. XML (perhaps something like this?)
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If pieces of the world are changing in some meaningful way (like Minecraft/Minicraft/Terraria), then break down your world into logical units (sometimes called chunks) and save them independently. If, for instance, the player walks too far away from a chunk, that would be a good time to save it, and possibly remove it from memory (though, this probably isn't neccessary unless the world is going to be exceedingly large).
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