seebs wrote:Tea wrote:Any chance we can have save games moved to My Games? Read savegames from Documents\Almost Human if they exist, but please have it save to Documents\My Games\Almost Human instead. That folder is there for a reason; savegames aren't documents.
I was under the impression that "My Games" was a folder offered for containing game software.
I would consider saved games to be documents. The things a program loads and saves? Those are pretty much by definition "documents" from a computer's perspective.
"Documents" are your essays, reports, manuals, instructions, reminders, contracts, forms etc etc. Things that you work on. The "My Documents" folder has always been for your
documents and shouldn't contain anything else other than that. Essentially Documents should only contain .doc, .odt, .pdf etc and very little else.
"My Games" was introduced as a convention late into XP's life, with
some developers opting to create the folder and dumping stuff in there, in Vista it became accessible by a syscall and an update to XP also later included it. Microsoft demand that savegames be placed in Documents\My Games as one of their requirements for a Games for Windows certification; it is how it is meant to be done on Windows (I'm not saying Grimrock needs GFW certification, but standards are in place for a reason). My Documents folder is hell because developers keep neglecting that function and populating it; I like to be able to find things in there.
Essentially, by convention, for the sake of cleanliness, all game developers should put their savegames and configuration files in My Games. That way we all know where they will be, and our documents folders will be left clean. I think it should be easy enough for the Grimrock developers to read from both My Games and Almost Human, but create My Games\Almost Human if neither exist.
