Separate downloads for each platform is a good idea.
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From: "Trouble" <[email protected]>
To: "Gamers Discussion list" <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, June 10, 2013 6:50 AM
Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Thoughts About Game Installations
Other places that deal with this have different downloads on there site
like download for windows here, linix here and other here. They do that so
each offering can address the differences that go with that op. And the
question is not to us really but to you as in how much time you want to
give to supporting the install? Instead of just letting your web page do
it for you.
At 11:57 PM 6/9/2013, you wrote:
Hi all,
Over the last couple of months or so I've been busy as a bee porting
Mysteries of the Ancients etc over to my cross-platform Evolution
engine, and now I am busy writing the documentation for the new
cross-platform beta of Mysteries of the Ancients which I hope to have
out sometime this summer. However, as I've been porting the code,
testing it on multiple operating systems, etc I need to decide upon
the method of installation for the game. So here is the deal.
One issue I am experiencing with the cross-platform version of a game
like Mysteries of the Ancients is that every operating system has its
own directory structure, its own special place for storing files,
which means I have to constantly change the directory paths for my
files every time I compile it on a different OS. For example, on
Windows saved games should go in c:\Users\user name\Application
Data\MOTA, but on Linux it would go in /home/user name/.mota. Its not
difficult to support both, but an easier way is just to keep
everything in a single directory and run it from your home directory
on Linux or from your User directory on Windows.
There is a similar issue with things like sound and music. Typically
on Windows a game's sounds and music would be in the same directory as
the executable like c:\Program Files\Mysteries of the Ancients\Sounds
or c:\Program Files\Mysteries of the Ancients\Music, but Linux has a
totally different directory structure where files should go. For
example, the manual would go in /usr/shared/docs/MOTA, the sounds in
/usr/MOTA/Sounds, the music would go in /usr/MOTA/Music, and the
executable goes in /usr/bin. In short, there is no middle ground in
terms of where files would go just because they are totally different.
The easiest solution I can see for this problem is to simply zip the
game up, and rather than installing it you would extract the contents
to c:\Users\user name\MOTA on Windows Vista, Windows 7, and Windows 8
and would unzip them in /home/user name/MOTA on Linux. That way I can
keep all the files together, not worry about different environment
variables or different directory paths, and of course not have to
worry about things like User Account Control griping about saving
files to the program directory.
While this method seems to work well for Jeremy Kaldobsky, AKA Aprone,
I am worried that some users would want an actual installer like Inno
Setup rather than unzipping and manually installing the program
themselves. I can do that, of course, but I'd prefer not have to
unless it is necessary. Any thoughts, opinions, or suggestions about
this issue?
Thanks.
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