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Written by David on 2024-11-24 at 00:13

I just saw that Towers of Aghasba and Journey to the Savage Planet both use the same %LOCALAPPDATA%\Towers\Saved\SaveGames directory for saves. A good reminder to #gamedev teams:

• Use the name of your game for install and save folders so players can find it and are less likely for overlap.
• Use your studio name as the top level folder for saves. %LOCALAPPDATA%\idbrii\Towers\SaveGames has a tiny chance of overlap and you do not want other games writing to your save folder.

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Written by David on 2024-11-24 at 00:16

Additionally, I'd recommend using suffixes for your game name folder for different builds of your game (prod vs beta vs dev-with-cheats) so you have clean saves where dev bugs aren't invalidated with "maybe I used cheats" and beta bugs don't risk corrupting prod saves.

Towers, Towers_beta, Towers_dev, etc.

You can even make yourself an in-game command to copy saves from prod to other builds to help you test endgame or save upgrading using your personal prod save.

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