Weekly Devlog #2 - Saving and loading — Tales of Kathay Steam update #327351

Hello everyone!Last Friday, the first public version of Tales of Kathay (0.1) was released. While still in early development, several people have played the game and gave me valuable feedback for the game!This week, I started work on the next version of the game. This version will be focused on a few game mechanics that are missing, and the sooner I implement them into the game, the better. The planned features for 0.2 are:Saving and loading;Simulate the world as you play;Consumables;More gear variety;Saving and loading Enabling the saving and loading of the game was the focus of this week's work. While I had considered since the beginning what data I would eventually have to save and load from disk, actually implementing the serialization exposed some flaws in the data flow of the game.After a decent bit of head scratching, I managed to refactor everything that was in the way, and got t...