From: Justin Collins <justincollins@...>
Date: 2012-05-10T11:01:43+09:00
Subject: Re: game development in ruby

On 05/09/2012 06:40 PM, Zachary Pearson wrote:
> Hi, Im fairly new to ruby, and as an exercise of what i've learned and
> an attempt to further understand ruby, i have decided to create a text
> based RPG. I've been able to get pretty far with virtually no trouble,
> but i have ran into a problem. I am having some trouble with the save
> mechanism. the way it works is that it only saves the state of the areas
> that you have the ability to travel to. but in certain areas, events are
> triggered based on objects in the your inventory/environments. the
> trouble i've been having is if you save once you're able to travel to
> the areas, but exit the game before the events are triggered, when you
> get back on, the game doesnt recognize the objects as being present and
> as a result the events that should be triggered arent triggered. I'm
> thinking that when it saves, it saves the object with a specific
> address, but when the game loads, it loads expecting a new/different
> address and doesnt recognize the old/saved address. but thats just a
> guess, im not sure if thats actually whats going on. right now, im using
> marshal.dump to save and marshal.load to load. would anyone have any
> thoughts on this?
>

It seems like you need to check the player's inventory and the 
environment when you load the player, in order to fire the events you 
are expecting.

I don't understand what you mean by "address".

-Justin