Varrickmana

I was wondering how people let their programs save their progress. Like on a text-based rpg, how would I allow the player to save their game? I have an idea of what the answer might be, but please, help me out on this one. Please give me a detailed description of what to do if you can. Thx.

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King

What is your idea, we can tell you if it sucks or not. Depending on how complicated your game is you can just save some info to a text file, then read it back in when you start the game back up.

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skoob

What is the reason for save a game that is 30 minutes long?

Klarre

An idea is to have a "GameState" class (or struct), where you store all things that you want to keep. And if everything in that class is static (no std::vector or std::string, just static arrays), it is very simple to write this class instance to a binary file, and then recreate it when you want to load your game.
This link might help you using binary files if you are not already familiar with it: http://www.cplusplus.com/doc/tutorial/files.html