alt Hacker NewsWhy is saving the state hard for them? So many games and other software save their state .... Imagine Excel 'replaying' the spreadsheet to return to the latest state.
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mmooss • yesterday at 7:12 PM
To add to my comment above: If the game doesn't know the current state, how does it compute the outcome of the next move? Does it replay from scratch again? (Obviously not.)
How do they develop it? The developers must have to save and restart the game more than anyone.
I'm curious about how it's designed, which must be different than most other games and software. (I'm not saying they are crazy, etc. I'm certain they've thought about this issue.)
I suspect the answer is that we are misunderstanding something and that it can save and restore state relatively efficiently.
it sounds so stupid u know i am curious Why on earth people would do this. How it is not possible to dump some memory as save/load. is the game state not known?? :/