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I wrote this a few years back now and have noticed that it still gets used occasionally. It should work fine, just know that then way I decided to do this makes it extremely trivial to inject lua code into your games from the savefile. Thats what this script does as the savefile is infact just a lua script that returns the table.

SaveData

A Library for Love2D for saving data

Usage

This library is capable of saving most tables into a file to be loaded back in at a later timer.

saveData.save(data, saveFile)

This will save the Table, data into a file named saveFile overwriting it if it exists and creating it if it does not.

This will return the success and error values of the love.filesystem.write function

saveData.load(saveFile)

This will return the table saved in the file named saveFile

Example

local saveData = require("saveData")
function love.load()
t = {}
t.settings = {graphics = "good"}
t.settings.window = {x = 10, y = 20}
t.save = {}
t.save.scene = "boss"

saveData.save(t, "test")

local t2 = saveData.load("test")
print(t2.settings.graphics)
print(t2.settings.window.x, t2.settings.window.y)
print(t2.save.scene)
end

OUTPUT:

good
10  20
boss