How do I make save games properly

Is anyone else having an issue with save games?

Everything works fine with loading and saving.

I'm currently autosaving the game at the start of each new level/layout,

and that's working fine.

But when I load the saved game later, the Z Orders are all mixed up on the loaded level/layout,

so things that should be in front are now hidden behind objects.

I was curious if anyone has experienced this and maybe had tips on how to fix it.

I tried searching for answers, but it seems too specific... I couldn't find anything.

Thanks

Cooldowns, bullet direction left and right mirroring, and z-orders all seem to get weird when I load a saved game. All these things work perfectly fine when playing through the game from the beginning.

I've researched a ton today, and figured out its most likely because the save state doesn't save everything. There are a lot of things that don't get saved, and I have some things working with the system---every tick event... for cooldowns, and a lot of the things that don't work when loading a save, are things that are linked to those cooldowns.

But, like I said, they work fine otherwise. Its just when I load a saved game.

I don't really know how to fix it, though.

It would be really great if someone had an idea of how to solve this issue.

I suppose I could just finish my game and have it be old school, no saving, one time play-through, but I'd rather not do that.

Help please

I have one more question related to the save game state.

Is there a way to delete the save that's in the game before exporting, so that the player doesn't hit continue and end up starting on the last level I was playing in the testing phase?

I did a test nodewebkit export, and noticed this.

I didn't know where the save file was kept.

Thanks