How to save and resume an AI game across chats and assistants

The short version

• Save: type save; copy the block the game prints between BEGIN AIGC SAVE and END AIGC SAVE.
• Resume: open a new chat, paste the block, and ask the game to load it and continue.
• Switch apps: the block is plain text, so a save from ChatGPT loads in Claude, Gemini, or Perplexity.
• No account: the save lives in your chat; nothing is stored on a server.

How do you save an AI game?

You type save and the game writes the save for you. Games built on the Ironquill engine offer a save at the end of every chapter, and honor the command any time you ask. What comes back is a short, delimited block of plain text:

-----BEGIN AIGC SAVE-----
game:the-toll-at-blackbridge m:blackbridge rules:1.0.0 ch:1 s:1.2 turn:14 tape:9
pc:Halda Fenn|Archivist|Blade0 Shadow1 Lore3 Grit1 Sway1 Sense2
strain:2/6 scars:none moves:Old-Words(ready) purse:3
inv:chalk, reading-lens, stub-candle
flags:ledger-read
clocks:Owed 2/6, Suspicion 1/4
sha:none
-----END AIGC SAVE-----

Copy the whole block, from the BEGIN line to the END line, and paste it into a note. That text is the complete save. There is no file to download and no account to keep it in.

What is the AIGC save code?

The AIGC save code is a human-readable snapshot of your run, written as key:value tokens between two marker lines. It's plain text on purpose: readable text survives retyping, hand-edits, and a paste from one app into another, where a binary save file would not. Each token pins one part of the game state:

The tape value matters more than it looks. Games print their dice as a fixed, seeded sequence — a tape — and record how far along it you are, so resuming continues the exact same rolls instead of re-rolling your luck. You can check any run's dice, and a sealed mystery's verdict, with the seal verifier.

How do you resume a game in a new chat?

You open a fresh chat, paste the save block, and add one line: load this and resume. The game reads the block, reprints the full state, and drops you back mid-story. Two ways to do it:

• By hand: paste the block into a new chat with "Load this AI Game Cards save and continue where it leaves off."
• With the tool: paste the block into the resume page. It reads your character card and gives you a ready prompt plus a one-click link into ChatGPT or Claude.

Resuming in a new chat isn't a workaround — it's how a long game is meant to run. A single chat that stretches over many hours starts to lose track of early details as it fills. Saving at each chapter and continuing in a fresh chat keeps the game working from the save block and its ledger rather than from a long, crowded transcript. The multi-chapter campaigns lean on this: each chapter is its own session, chained by saves.

Can you start a game in ChatGPT and finish it in Claude?

Yes. Because the save is plain text and not tied to any one app, a run you begin in ChatGPT resumes in Claude, Gemini, or Perplexity without conversion. Paste the block into the second assistant, ask it to fetch the game's system file and load the save, and it rebuilds your character and picks up the scene. Every current game supports cross-app saves; the compatibility matrix shows what else differs between the apps, like how each handles prefill links and dice.

How does the game stay consistent across sessions?

The ledger holds it together. Every reply ends with a one-line ledger — scene, strain, inventory, flags, clocks, tape position — and the game reprints the full state at each scene change. That ledger is the state of record: when the model's memory and the ledger disagree, the ledger wins. A save is just the ledger frozen into a block you can carry. So resuming from a save, even in a different app, restores the same authoritative state the game was already running from. For sealed mysteries the same honesty rule reaches the ending: the solution is committed before you play and checkable afterward with the sealed-case files and the seal verifier. For the full catalog of games that save this way, see the roundup of games to play with ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini.