👉 Save engineering, also known as persistent save or save system, is a crucial aspect of game development that ensures the game state is reliably and efficiently saved to disk or a storage medium, allowing players to resume their progress seamlessly without losing any data. This involves managing save files, handling different save formats (like binary or text), implementing save/load functions that can handle various game states, and ensuring data integrity and consistency across sessions. Save engineering also includes optimizing save performance by minimizing the amount of data written to disk, managing save file sizes, and implementing features like save tags or checkpoints to enhance user experience by allowing quick saves or selective saves.
