Is there a way to save the game in a paused state

system · February 29, 2016, 1:58pm


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	Asked By	sleepy
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I am making a platformer game. I want to be able to pause the game and save it exactly where the pause happened. Does anyone know if this is possible, and how it would be done?

system · February 29, 2016, 2:24pm


	Reply From:	Hinsbart

Take a look at the save game tutorial. Basically you’d keep track of all the necessary object states (variables like position, health, whatever…) and save them to a Dictionary, which you can then write to disk as json.

Depending on the type of game, if you want the loaded game to behave EXACTLY like the save/load didn’t happen in the first place, you’ll have to save a LOT of variables.