02-15-2023, 03:03 AM
Recently I've been learning about saving data in games. It seems like most games only save the variables that have changed during the course of gameplay. But with this method you have to specify which variables get saved and that can be an extremely long list to keep track of.
So my question is: I've heard about some games using snapshots (hoping that's the right term), where instead of saving just a handful of variables, it saves the entire state of the entire game at that moment so it can be loaded later. Is there a way to do that in QB64? Though I've never used them before, I'm aware of all the _MEM commands and I imagine it can be done using those, but I have no clue how to do so and haven't seen any practical tutorials.
So my question is: I've heard about some games using snapshots (hoping that's the right term), where instead of saving just a handful of variables, it saves the entire state of the entire game at that moment so it can be loaded later. Is there a way to do that in QB64? Though I've never used them before, I'm aware of all the _MEM commands and I imagine it can be done using those, but I have no clue how to do so and haven't seen any practical tutorials.