Save Game

[lumpybanana247]

I am trying to make a little Text-Based RPG (in the Win95 window and everything like that)
and it is oobviosly in C++.
Is there a way i could save progress in the game (such as record and load data like goldleft, questcomplete)

thanks

[Savage]

I am trying to make a little Text-Based RPG (in the Win95 window and everything like that)
and it is oobviosly in C++.
Is there a way i could save progress in the game (such as record and load data like goldleft, questcomplete)

thanks

Yes.Use files
For e.g:

Now if I assume that experiance gold an all those staffs are variables in ur programm u could print that in file whne user decides to save:

quest1 start;
quest1 finished;

<Do u wanna save the current progress(Y\N)>

<Y>

quest1 start;
quest1 finished,saved,gold=,experiance=...

And then when loading search the line that contains saved and read it in.
Later use a tokenizer to pull out values

Savage

[lumpybanana247]

Yes.Use files
For e.g:

Now if I assume that experiance gold an all those staffs are variables in ur programm u could print that in file whne user decides to save:

quest1 start;
quest1 finished;

<Do u wanna save the current progress(Y\N)>

<Y>

quest1 start;
quest1 finished,saved,gold=,experiance=...

And then when loading search the line that contains saved and read it in.
Later use a tokenizer to pull out values

Savage

experiece and gold are like

int experieice;
in gold;
 

then quest 1 finished is like

bool quest1finished=true;
 

so is it the same thing?
how do i search the line when i load?
whats a tokeniazer?

thanks

[Savage]

experiece and gold are like

int experieice;
in gold;
 

then quest 1 finished is like

bool quest1finished=true;
 

so is it the same thing?
how do i search the line when i load?
whats a tokeniazer?

thanks

U will need to output first all of that data into a file.For the load take this example:

quest1:start,
quest1:finshed,
quest2:start,
quest2:finished.saved,gold=,exp=,

Now onto how to load a file:

As u can see every line has it's format:

quest<quest no.>operator ':' <quest status> operator '.' or operator ','

Now to the tokenizer.Tokenizer searchs the string for the first ocurance of symbols setted as it's parametar and returns a pointer to the first character in given string adn writes '\0' character just after the token.After first call it has for parametar, instead of line,a NULL pointer.For example:

In c/c++ tokenizer is strtok();

So if have string like:

quest1:finished.saved,gold=<value>,exp=<value>

The string should become:

quest1
finished
saved
gold
<value>
exp
<value>


For reference on using strtok() check this out.

Savage