[lifeinbinary]

Hi, I'm making a world domination board game for ios. This is my first "bigger" game and I was wondering if anyone had any suggestions on how to save and load a game state (all my variables, sprites, etc...) I was thinking something like a snapshot of the whole game allocation byte for byte... is this possible? Or do I have to create a file with my own format and recreate the game (fill my arrays, assign my variable values, load my sprites, etc...) I'm sure there must be a good way to do this... I don't want to reinvent the wheel

[anonymous26]

Have you looked at XML or JSON? Any C++ solution will do, it doesn't have to be Obj-C.

[lifeinbinary]

ButchDean, on 13 June 2013 - 08:25 AM, said:

Have you looked at XML or JSON? Any C++ solution will do, it doesn't have to be Obj-C.

Could you elaborate on your answer? How would you go about using these methods?

[anonymous26]

Check out TinyXML.

You can plug any C++ code directly into an Obj-C project of course.

This post has been edited by ButchDean: 13 June 2013 - 11:28 AM

[lifeinbinary]

lifeinbinary, on 13 June 2013 - 11:25 AM, said:

ButchDean, on 13 June 2013 - 08:25 AM, said:

Have you looked at XML or JSON? Any C++ solution will do, it doesn't have to be Obj-C.

Could you elaborate on your answer? How would you go about using these methods?

I looked it up... do you mean to serialize my GameState class and other classes that need saving? How will this work Cocos2d using sprite frames? Am I over thinking this?

[james.malvi]

lifeinbinary, on 13 June 2013 - 11:25 AM, said:

ButchDean, on 13 June 2013 - 08:25 AM, said:

Have you looked at XML or JSON? Any C++ solution will do, it doesn't have to be Obj-C.

Could you elaborate on your answer? How would you go about using these methods?

for better json and xml viewer use this online tool

http://codebeautify.org/view/json