C++ Tutorials - Absolute n00b spoonfeed

as title says, find a way to save your game state.
whether it be a text based rpg, or some 3D, blast em and rape them FPS.


how would you go about saving the current state of the program, so it can be accessed at another time...


-s-s-

Ok, heres how i would do it........(I'm not gonna write out actual code, because i don't have nearly enough time for that)


On the assumption that this "game" is some sort of RPG, or anything of that type, you'll be given an option to receive a bunch of supposedly random gibberish, which you'll write down and remember. Whenever you start the program up, your enter that "gibberish" back into it, which will basically bring you back to where you were playing before, with the same stats and weapons, etc...

Now to the method of my madness! The string of code it spits out, will be the variables in the game, just "encrypted" so you couldn't cheat through the game, and give your self ultra god like stats. So you would assign each every number a different number, so 1 strength=10128, or something, so they couldn't guess it. Just make codes for all your variables, including one for location in your game (how far you got) and if anything doesn't match with an accepted number, say they are trying to cheat, and force em back to the main menu

Good guessing salt!

By the way there are many game cheats that work by modifying a certain file, such as the cheating codes in Crysis.

The technical details of opening/closing/loading/saving files will be explained in an upcoming video.

aha! Also, I didn't really understand it, but another person posted something about encrypting the bytes used, which could also maybe be used to make it near impossible to "hack" into by changing files.

(I used to do that for this game called "Rome:total war", to get more money and stuff.... :])