How to save a game's progress in c++ (visual studio)

Question

I am making a game, the game works, but when I exit the console application, I want the game to save the user's progress, such as money and items they have bought. I am not sure how to, I am new to c++. Thanks for taking your time to read this.

You save it in a file in an easily readable format, and read it back when you start the next time. — molbdnilo, Aug 18 '21 at 07:36
The best start is to get a [good book](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/388242/the-definitive-c-book-guide-and-list) and read about files. — molbdnilo, Aug 18 '21 at 07:37
What is `FileInput`? Is it a class that you made, or just your guess at how input/output could've worker? — HolyBlackCat, Aug 18 '21 at 07:47
To be honest I have copied that code, from another forum with a similar question and tried to adapt that code to my game. But I do not understand it. — cool bean, Aug 18 '21 at 07:48
you have to make up your mind what you want to write to the file and in which format, most of this is not specific to C++. Once you know what you want in the file you can turn to implementing it in C++ — 463035818_is_not_an_ai, Aug 18 '21 at 08:07
just google: how to read file in c++ and how to write file in c++. That's it. — Yves, Aug 18 '21 at 09:17

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Aug 18 '21 at 08:25

To save progression you need to create a saveFile, you have to define what variables to save (money, items, current life, posX, posY,...).

You can define any readable file format like JSON :

{
     "player":{
         "life":26,
         "max_life":40,
         "bag":{
             "max_number_items":15
             "items":[..,..,..]
}

Or anything else like this:

<PLAYER>
max_life=40
life=26
</PLAYER>
<BAG>
max_number_items
..
</BAG>

And then on load, you have to read your file to get back your data

How to save a game's progress in c++ (visual studio)

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