hey i am making a game and decided that i want to put a load/save option in it and was wondering if anyone here knew how to do this, (the program has to be able to close, open again and load the progress from before). I am running in windows using Borland editor 3.
evilsilver 0 Junior Poster in Training
Narue 5,707 Bad Cop Team Colleague
It depends heavily on how your game works. For the most part, all you need to do is save relevant information about the player such as stats, items, and location. Then you can rebuild the current game state upon load.
evilsilver 0 Junior Poster in Training
I understand that you have to save it to another file with all the stuff needed, but i don't know how to do this (i am a new programmer, the game is in dos mode and isjust input output type stuff.)
Narue 5,707 Bad Cop Team Colleague
I don't know how to help you because I don't know the specifics of your game. Sorry.
prog-bman 4 Junior Poster
Look up <fstream> its a thing of beauty.
vegaseat 1,735 DaniWeb's Hypocrite Team Colleague
Are you writing your game in C or C++?
evilsilver 0 Junior Poster in Training
Are you writing your game in C or C++?
c++
and thanx for the tip on fstream
vegaseat 1,735 DaniWeb's Hypocrite Team Colleague
There is a very nice fstream tutorial right here on DaniWeb at:
http://www.daniweb.com/tutorials/tutorial6542.html
It shows in detail how to write and read data to a file.
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