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Maybe this is one of those things that's too exploitable to bring back, but I miss Offline Saving. I know the whole point is Graal OnLine, but isn't Offline Game still a viable development goal? But what's the point if every time the player loads up they lose all their weapons, flags, appearance, etc?

I mean, I could do something sneaky with a level full of weapons and a password, but...

What do you mean Offline saving?
I don't get it :o

Like in the Editor?

Yes, it's like saving your progress, just offline

I've already requested this, Stefan said offline gaming was not popular anymore... or something like that.

Welllll, I want it anyway. So there. :-D

Weird, I actually prefer offline games over any other online games.

Theres no possible way to count the amount of people who play graal offline so statisticaly they are always going to say offline isn't popular

Plus it's a necessity if they're gonna sell Graal as a Development Tool.
"Awesome powerful easy programming language! But you can't save." ManWhat?

It wouldn't even be that dangerous in the world of Clientside Scripting - you load a file, it tries to addweapons clientside, if you're hacked onto a server the server laughs at you and kicks you off because that's a Serverside command...

Even if it's just generic Clientside-Only Offline-Only File Access: "Save all these strings to a text file; load this text file as all these strings", easy.

That's my problem. Graal has serious potential to create full offline games, but it is left untapped because Stefan has this insane idea that offline gaming is dead to online. I could create some great games offline with Graal(because it's a lot less stressful than creating an online server; a lot less factors), but since there's no way to save...

I seriously think Graal beats out GameMaker and RPG Maker if you put the dedication into it. Or at least, it has the potential to be.

They need to take care of the fact that it's a game first, then refocus on development tools.

Drop your illusion about Graal being 100% a game, it's partially a development platform and have been for a good amount of years now.

This is Crono, I'm sure he knows that Graal is not 100 percent a game. And that obviously does not mean that Graal isn't a game first and a development platform second. You should show more respect to those with more rep bars than you. :)

And, how the hell did you post a percent sign? I always get the bad request error.

I need a programming hobby, so if anyone wants to help me make an offline game engine, I'm available.

Probably uses a Non-Standard American Keyboard layout that gives a Unicode value for the percent sign as opposed to an ascii 256 layout code.

Yes. Of course. :rolleyes:

It's called Quick Reply.

Quick reply will hang up instead of a bad request, if you post a percent sign -- it's not immune.

It seems completely random, though, in my experience. Sometimes I can post it, most of the time I can't.

Supernanny directed me to a post by Googi who said that you could type % to have it display a percent (%) sign.
I'm sorry but it doesn't sound like you know what you're talking about. D:

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Anyways, I though there was a way to read and write files in GS1?

(I have never had that percent problem, btw. :P)

There's a way to write files serversidey with savelog and all, and putnpc is a sneaky way to load them, but there's no way I know of to save a file with a GS1/2 script offline....short of asking the player to press F4, click the Flags, select all, copy and paste into a notepad file...

Well, writing % isn't causing any bad request for me :]

But yeah, support for creating offline games would rule.

Call it an extension of the multiplatform initiative. I mean, what's the point of Graal on iPhone and toaster-ovens and the Wii and Cable Boxes and Microwaves if it's ONLINE ONLY, STOP HAVING FUN GUYS?