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    How to save game state??? (Newbie question)

    bayopbayop Member
    edited September 2013 in General questions
    I'm working on a game in gideros and I'm currently struggling with how best to save and restore game state. I was wondering if I could use the dataSaver api to save and retreive sprite objects (with physics properties)... I would also want to avoid saving the whole object as I suspect that this might take up a lot of space and be really slow...

    Anybody have any clues. I'm trying to test the idea, but my lua is not so good and it's taking a while to do a simple prototype.
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    • adityaaditya Member
      Use this https://github.com/ar2rsawseen/dataSaver by @ar2rsawseen

      To Save:
      dataSaver.save("|D|filename", data)
      To Load:
      local t = dataSaver.load("|D|filename")

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    • bayopbayop Member
      My question is where or not it works for sprite objects (since they use graphics memory and may be attached to the scene as at the time a save is requested). I'm just trying to find the best/most efficient way to get this done.
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    • adityaaditya Member
      Might be best if you just save the data you need for individual objects e.g: current position, health etc. Then spawn the object and assign the retrieved values.
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    • bayopbayop Member
      Also would dataSaver work for object methods or does just work for data?
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    • bayopbayop Member
      Thanks aditya...

      that's probably what I was thinking as well...
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    • ar2rsawseenar2rsawseen Maintainer
      @bayop saving data is possible
      saving objects not possible, but hmm, thats an interesting idea :)
      http://appcodingeasy.com/Gideros-Mobile
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