How to save and resume a playthrough
Save a playthrough under a name
Section titled “Save a playthrough under a name”Saving does not end the playthrough, and you can save as many times as you like.
- In the campaign window, select the bookmark in the header.
- Type a name in the Save this playthrough dialog. Save stays unavailable until the name is not empty.
- Select Save. The app reports Saved as “name”. and the playthrough carries on.
Put a playthrough down and pick it up again
Section titled “Put a playthrough down and pick it up again”Select Pause in the campaign window to put a playthrough down. Pausing writes an automatic save into the project’s .ripple/saves/, listed as Where you left off in the same list as your named saves and rewritten each time you pause. How to play and test a campaign covers pausing and resuming.
Pausing and resuming in the same sitting hands you back the board you just edited. A save opened later is checked against the story as it is then, which is why one can be refused.
Open a saved game
Section titled “Open a saved game”- Select the bookmark beside Play, or run Open a saved game… from the command palette.
- Pick a save. The list shows the passage each is waiting at and how long ago it was written.
- If a playthrough is running, the app asks Open this saved game? Opening a save throws the running campaign away, so save that playthrough first if you want it back.
- Select Open.
A save records your place and everything the story has made. The campaign window and saved games lists what it holds, and How a story runs explains how choice counts and macros behave.
When a saved game is refused
Section titled “When a saved game is refused”A save records a place in a board. If the story has been rewritten since and that place no longer exists, the save is listed with the reason beside it and left alone. Open another save, or start a new playthrough and save that.
A build older than yours refuses a newer save rather than put a json variable back to its default. Update the app to open it.
Saves are left out of version control.