Settings (like whether tiles are enabled, and screen resolution/fullscreen) should be saved

[nstoddard]

It would be nice if settings, like whether tiles are enabled, screen resolution, and whether fullscreen is enabled, were saved, so it wasn't necessary to set them each time you open Brogue.

[nstoddard]

It turns out there's command line options to set these: -G to enable tiles and -F to enable fullscreen. These solve my use case for this feature, though adding it might still be useful since most people won't want to write a script to launch Brogue with these flags.

[nstoddard]

Here's a (likely incomplete) list of settings that we probably want:

• Graphical mode/text mode/hybrid mode
• Fullscreen
• Window size (Remember window sizes #298)
• Game variant (vanilla vs rapid)
• Game mode (normal, easy, wizard)
• Whether some prompts require a capital 'Y' to confirm (Pressing 'y' to confirm a dangerous action should require a capital Y #444)
• Whether color effects are enabled
• Whether stealth range is shown
• Replay speed
• (Maybe) animation speed (suggested in Reduce duration of delays when the game is running slowly #560, though it might not be needed)

I think most of these settings should be modifiable at runtime; most of them already exist in-game, they're just not saved to disk. The file format should be simple enough to be easily parseable and writable, maybe something like this:

graphics: tiles
fullscreen: false
window_width: 1920
window_height: 1080
variant: vanilla
...

[zenzombie]

I think JSON is a good candidate format. Here's a library that might work: https://github.com/DaveGamble/cJSON

[esbudylin]

Hi! I decided to take a look on this issue. I'm working in this repo. I already implemented input and output functionality for a JSON config. I was able to add following settings:

• graphical mode
• game variant
• replay speed
• color effects
• stealth range
• wizard mode
• easy mode

I also tried to take a look into window size settings, but I'm unsure about which part of the code is responsible for the window size. Perhaps you could point me in the right direction?