How do I make save and load games?

[Jamestown02]

I’m starting off with something small. Just a simple platformer game.

There’s tutorials on youtube on how to save games, but they’re like 2-3 years old. They’re outdated. Whatever used to work isn’t working.

[RMDB]

Have you tried the Save/Load thread from Zero here

Save / Load your game (Quick + In Depth Tutorial works on all devices including browsers)

What i noticed is that you use the wait action before saving and in at the beginning of the scene only (while i use wait even before loading and saving in any conditions). but only when there is a condition in the game that doesn’t involve overloads…like in an empty room,save room ecc… I’ve always wondered if it was the proper ways to do it…since the asynch timer. To me it’s like to give the time to read and load all values before doing something, but i honestly dunno if it’s really needed. …

[Bubble]

Hi Jamestown02 and welcome. It’s new, but I’m using this and loving it:

[petlimpet]

I’ve still not tried it yet …have you noticed any reasons not to use it yet? I need to have a play around with it so what’s possible!

[Bubble]

I’ve been able to delete a lot of save events, structure variables, complicated transitions with json stuff. The only thing it can’t do (yet) that affects me is save the state of custom object children but it can be done manually. The first time I used it, it was a wow moment after so many headaches with the old system.

[RMDB]

I’m not suggesting to use it for some reasons i posted here.

[BUGS TRACKING] about the new savestate feature

I’ve decided to update this thread with the bugs I’m encountering during the savestate,not to complain (i know it is an experimental feature), but simply to keep a list of what seems to not be working in this new GD feature, so that (if possible) we can have an indicative overview. STICK BEHAVIOUR it lose the anchor point (origin) of the object when loaded… RESOURCE BARS AND SLIDERS they don’t keep (customized) edited aspect ratio (w/h) after loading… YARN (to test) unable to load in the d…

[petlimpet]

There’s bound to be a few bugs still. I guess if you’re saving the state of everything manually then it’s easier to solve the problems that you encounter. I had a quick look at the actions and it seems quite flexible. Gdevelop did need this …as most of gdevelop is very straight forward for new users - and then they had to get to grips with the storage system and finding GlobalVar to JSON etc when saving.

[Jamestown02]

I solved it. I went through one of the premade save & load templates.
Thank you.