A save has to load into the same world
How we test saving in a simulation that never sits still
Saving a game sounds like the easy part. In a world where every village, caravan, building site and grudge keeps changing, it is one of the hardest.
The danger is the quiet kind. A save that loads without an error but forgets one small thing, a half-built wall or a caravan's next stop, produces a world that drifts away from the one you left. You would notice a day later and never know why.
So we have a probe for it. It plays, saves, loads, and compares the world before and after, then lets both run on for a day and compares again. Any difference is a failure.
It has caught real bugs. One was a cached road length that was not rebuilt on load, so a caravan took a different time to arrive after loading. Nobody would have reported that. The probe did.
Age of Medieval is developed by UnderStudio in UnderStudio 2D and published by Brasa Interactive. It releases on 17 May 2027.
Age of Medieval on Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3259670/
Official site: https://ageofmedieval.com/
