Save Bonus Plugin?

[Protagonist7]

I'm wondering, would anyone be interested in making a plugin which allows for save transfers ala The Mass Effect games, or Wizardry, or King's Quest?

I'm thinking something that could either read a save file, or something which creates a file containing the desired info. The data in question would preferably contain a character's class, level, and some game-specific variables.

Would anyone be willing to make this?

 

[Aloe Guvner]

How will the player provide the save file? Are they going to upload it somewhere? Type in a passcode? Put it into the save folder of the game?

Is this for a desktop deployment, mobile, or browser?

Edit:

const contents = JsonEx.parse(StorageManager.load(savefileId));
if (Utils.isNwjs()) nw.Window.get().showDevTools();
console.log(contents);
console.log(contents.actors);
console.log(contents.actors.actor(1));
console.log(contents.actors.actor(1).level);
console.log(contents.actors.actor(1).currentClass().name);

 

[Protagonist7]

How will the player provide the save file? Are they going to upload it somewhere? Type in a passcode? Put it into the save folder of the game?

Is this for a desktop deployment, mobile, or browser?

Desktop deployment.

 

[Aloe Guvner]

Ok... and my other questions?

How will the player provide the save file? Are they going to upload it somewhere? Type in a passcode? Put it into the save folder of the game?

 

[Protagonist7]

Ok... and my other questions?

Oh, sorry. I'm thinking they'd put it in the save folder of the game.

 

[Aloe Guvner]

Yeah, that could work.

Here's a sample code (same as above but it was an edit so you might not have seen it).

Replace savefileId with the number of the savefile Id. Usually a number between 1 and 20.

const contents = JsonEx.parse(StorageManager.load(savefileId));
if (Utils.isNwjs()) nw.Window.get().showDevTools();
console.log(contents);
console.log(contents.actors);
console.log(contents.actors.actor(1));
console.log(contents.actors.actor(1).level);
console.log(contents.actors.actor(1).currentClass().name);

If you run that code in an event, it will open up the dev tools and show you all the information from the save file. You can use the arrows to expand each object.

So basically I'm showing that you can access the save data with just one line of code (the first line of code above). Then you need to figure out what data that you're looking for.

 

[Protagonist7]

Yeah, that could work.

Here's a sample code (same as above but it was an edit so you might not have seen it).

Replace savefileId with the number of the savefile Id. Usually a number between 1 and 20.

const contents = JsonEx.parse(StorageManager.load(savefileId));
if (Utils.isNwjs()) nw.Window.get().showDevTools();
console.log(contents);
console.log(contents.actors);
console.log(contents.actors.actor(1));
console.log(contents.actors.actor(1).level);
console.log(contents.actors.actor(1).currentClass().name);

If you run that code in an event, it will open up the dev tools and show you all the information from the save file. You can use the arrows to expand each object.

So basically I'm showing that you can access the save data with just one line of code (the first line of code above). Then you need to figure out what data that you're looking for.

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Sweet!