Saving the whole ward

A horror game lives on tension, and nothing kills tension like losing twenty minutes of progress. Hollow Ward autosaves at milestones and offers Continue on the main menu.

Everything is state

Saving the player position is the easy part. The ward also has to remember which drawers are open, which doors are unlocked, what is in the inventory, and how far each puzzle has got.

Each system that owns state registers with the save system and knows how to write and restore itself. The save code lives in its own assembly so nothing else can reach into it by accident.