Making a whole game as a single map

[Blue Shadow]

You're using GZDoom Builder, right? When setting the action special and arguments, choose action 80 (ACS_Execute). There should be a check box for named scripts. Tick it, and choose the name of the script from the drop-down list (you might need to compile the ACS code before it can be seen in the list).

That's as far as I recall on how to do it. I don't have GZDoom Builder installed, and it's been like two years or so since the last time I used it, so things could be different.

[Xaser]

Regarding the infamous save-prevention topic, a few of us were talking on Discord and I think we've come up with a reasonable-compromise new feature. Somehow.

The gist: add a 'nomanualsaves' option to MAPINFO that works exactly like nocrouch/nojump: by default it prevents manual saves, but the user can set an 'sv_allowsaves' cvar that overrides it permanently.

The way I see it, save prevention is exactly the same camp as nocrouch/nojump anyway -- it's basically a hint to the player that says "you aren't supposed to do that," but if they wanna cheat, they absolutely can (e.g. there's nothing stopping the user from enabling godmode in a hypothetical Resident Evil GZDoom TC, nor should there be). And those who hate this behavior can set the CVAR and never have to worry about it again. Win/win.

[Rachael]

I really like Xaser's solution. It gives the mapper a way to say "hey, don't use saves" and it gives the user a way to say "I *really* need to save, like... right now!"

As long as there's at least an override, I think it's livable. Like hiding all the lines on the automap, or as Xaser already mentioned, disabling crouching/jumping/freelook.

[Hidden Hands]

This sounds like a very decent compromise. Best of both worlds and everyone is happy.