Questions about saving and loading (resuming, restoring) state of the game, allowing player stop and continue playing game at arbitrary moments of real and game time.

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sharing preferences between two apps on android with libgdx

I am making an android game with both a demo version and a paid version. I want users who decide to buy the paid version to continue from where they left off, with all their old data and settings. ...
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How to save and restore Bullet Physics state?

I'm looking for information on how to save the runtime state of rigid bodies with Bullet Physics. Most of my world consists of static objects, but I have a few dynamic and kinematic objects as well. I ...
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Saving roguelike game state?

I'm working on a basic roguelike using HTML5 and jQuery, and I've come across a problem. The way the game currently stands, the system only saves the game state every time the user moves between ...
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Saving an arbitrary sized 2d array

I'm trying to create an arbitrary sized(but not infinite) 2d tilebased world. My question is, how do i save a world like this? My idea was to split up the tiles into bigger chunks and then save those ...
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Good way to store entity data

I'm building an RPG style game, but i have some trouble with storing data from entities. These entities can carry data including but not limited to their location, their graphics, whether they are ...
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Saving Scores Using Cookies

I've recently created a small galiga like game recently using JavaScript and HTML5. I've run into a bit of trouble saving cookies, the cookie saves, but then resets itself when the page is refreshed, ...
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Saving data in games?

I'm soon going to make a game for the iPhone as a school project. My idea was to make a TLOZ remake, with Tiled Maps. However, I'm not quite sure how save the data. In TLOZ you have a lot of ...
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Cocos2d savegame cctmxtiledmap

my game features several tilemaps that are initially loaded from a tmx file and modified during gameplay. How can I save the changed tilemaps in a save game? Will NSCoding do the trick here or is the ...
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Forward Compatibility of Save Files

My game is driven by a scripting language, and the user can save at almost anytime in the middle of the script, so the instruction number of the script engine must be saved. The problem is that the ...
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CCUserDefault, iOS/Android and game updates

My game uses cocos2d-x and will be published on iOS platform first, later on Android. I save a lot of things with CCUserDefault (scores, which level was completed, number of coins taken, etc...). But ...
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Saving and Loading the Game (Automatically or Manually) via Internal Storage Only (Tablet PC Issues)

Here is my question. When making a game app for Android, I considered first the device. It's no problem to save progress everything (from levels to records) on a smartphone because it has an SD Card ...
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How can I write data to a file that users can't easily edit? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: How can I protect my save data from casual hacking? While working on game saving and loading I figured I could just write all the variable values to a file and then load ...
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How does one save a procedural world?

I have recently read about how to create procedural worlds... but how do I save one? In games like Terraria or Minecraft users can freely modify the landscape, but that world can't be recreated from ...
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In which directory to write game save files/data?

I need a definite list of directories, one or more per platform, of where to put game save files and other game generated data. Either based on the OS developer specification, or because it is common ...
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How is the Call of Duty checkpoint system implemented?

Does anybody know how it is implemented or has any advice how to do it? I'm especially interested in how to avoid that a player dies right after a checkpoint. How does the game evaluate when it's ...

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