Hello Godotneers! When you make a game, you will eventually want to add a system for saving and loading games. This can become surprisingly difficult as your game becomes more complex. In this video we're going to explore how we can save all revelant information from our game and load it back, how to make sure we can still load old saved games after we updated our game and how we can deal with security issues surrounding saved games.
== Table of Contents ==
00:00 Introduction
00:46 A simple approach
10:03 Format choices - JSON
17:58 Format choices - Dictionaries
20:33 Format choices - Resources
26:00 Handling dynamic game elements
32:43 A generalized approach
48:12 Extending the generalized approach
53:48 Saved game compatibility
59:55 Saved game security
1:07:47 Conclusion
== Useful Links ==
Example project - https://github.com/godotneers/saving-loading-video
Article on saved game compatiblity - https://raw.githubusercontent.com/godotneers/saving-loading-video/main/godotneers-ensuring-saved-game-compatibility.pdf
Godot reference on Resources - https://docs.godotengine.org/en/stable/tutorials/scripting/resources.html
Godot JSON class - https://docs.godotengine.org/en/stable/classes/class_json.html
Godot FileAccess class - https://docs.godotengine.org/en/stable/classes/class_fileaccess.html