On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 02:23:45PM -0700, Nevon wrote: > I'm currently part of a group developing a FOSS point-and-click > adventure game using Python and Pygame. The game engine is actually a > fork of the engine used in the game Colonel Wiljafjord and the > Tarbukas Tyranny, and entry in Pyweek #3. Right now we're working on > improving the engine in whatever way we can. If you're interested, the > source is available here: > http://github.com/kallepersson/subterranean/tree/master. > > So now I'd like to implement a save/load feature, but I don't really > know where to start. I have no idea how game save systems are usually > constructed, so I'm kind of lost. If anyone has any ideas, links to > resources, or pointers on how to best do this, please share. > > Thank you! > > Tommy Brunn > http://www.blastfromthepast.se/blabbermouth
There are a lot of ways to do this. What sort of game-state do you have? A big part of setting up a save game format is sorting out what data is runtime-state that doesn't matter for save games, and what data is persistant game state that needs to be saved. I don't know how the engine works, but since it is a point-and-click adventure, I am going to say right off that you will probably be saving things like: * hero's location * hero's inventory * whatever flags or bits or variables track who you have talked to and what quests you have completed As for the format of the data, you have a lot of options. xml, pickle, json, yaml, binary files of you're own devising, etc. --- James
