Added scraps.

scraps/GameState.lua

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+GameState = {}
+
+-- Supply the table then the name of the table in string format
+function GameState.save(tbl, table_name)
+  file = io.open("save_game/savefile.lua", "w")
+  io.output(file)
+  print_table(tbl, table_name)
+  io.close(file)
+end
+
+
+function GameState.load()
+  dofile("save_game/savefile.lua")
+end
+
+function printf (s, ...)
+	return io.write(s:format(...))
+end
+
+function print_table(tbl, table_name, only_once)
+	if only_once == nil then
+		printf("%s = { ", table_name)
+	end
+	for key,value in pairs(tbl) do
+		if type(value) == "table" then
+			printf("%s = { ",key)
+			print_table(value, table_name, true)
+			printf("}, ")
+		end
+		if type (value) ~= "table" then
+			if type(value) == "string" then
+				printf("%s = \"%s\", ", key, value)
+			else
+				printf("%s = %d, ", key, value)
+			end
+		end
+	end
+	if only_once == nil then
+		printf("}")
+	end
+end
+
+--Counts contents of tables of tables as well
+function tablelength(tbl, count)
+	local count = count or 0
+	
+	for key, value in pairs(tbl) do
+		if type(value) == "table" then
+			count = tablelength(value, count)
+		end
+		count = count + 1 
+	end
+	return count
+end