In Quest, will save files from an older game work with a newer verison of a game?

Question

Let's you're playing v1.0.0 and get about halfway done and then v1.0.1 comes out, can you continue where you left off using the same file or does a save file link to a game where when you open it, it reads as the version you originally started with?

Answer 1

As far as I know, a saved game contains the entire state for a game including all the code. If the author updates the original game, it will have no effect on the saved game as the saved game is, in effect, the original game plus any changes that have occurred due to it being played so far.

The updated game will only apply to a new game.

This means, among other things, that there is no way for a game author to update an in-progress game.

Answer 2

for the most part, yes. However, if any code lines has changed their syntax~format between versions, then you'll have to update~convert your old code lines to the new format~syntax required of them. The main change was with the list+dictionary Attributes' syntax~format.

http://docs.textadventures.co.uk/quest/upgrade_notes.html

an extremely useful link, for this very reason, hehe :D

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P.S.

and you also got to change the very first~top code line in your game file, from:

<asl version="###">

to:

<asl version="###">

for example:

from:

<asl version="550">

to:

<asl version="560">

and lastly, the quest engine only cares about the tens place, so don't do this:

<asl version="551">
~OR~
<asl version="565">

as '<asl version="550">' covers~works_for: v550 to v559
as '<asl version="560">' covers~works_for: v560 to v569

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a game file's (*.aslx) creation tag block:

<asl version="###">
  // your mass of game code~content
</asl>

a library file's (*.aslx) creation tag block:

<library>
  // your mass of code
</libary>

Comments

I'm talking about an update to a game in quest, not an update of quest itself