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This is a good reminder for me to make a physical backup of my game saves on Steam cloud

by trinovantes 4y ago

number6 4y ago
"Your save is incompatible to the current version of the game."
- stodor89 4y ago
  Dirt Rally: "Your save is made under different operating system and is thus incompatible"
  - trinovantes 4y ago
    Imagine a game save that uses OS dependent line breaks as delimiters. I joke but I fear there's some game out there that actually does this.
    - stodor89 4y ago
      "Closed-source" and "industry secrets" are holding gamedev back big time. We get away with many practices that'd be considered backwards by a web developer even 10 years ago, and we have no viable solutions to many gamedev-specific problems. This in turn leads to just the same stuff being re-made again and again since like 2005 or so.
  - gpderetta 4y ago
    I had started playing Skyrim on an XBOX360. A few years later I got it for my pc as well. I was amazed when I found out I could easily extract the save file form the console and use it on the PC version of Skyrim without any issues! Best part is that I was running Skyrim (and the extraction tools) on Linux under wine (this was before proton even).
- drawkbox 4y ago
  Game industry is notorious for binary blob game state. I worked at many and where possible converted to a keyed/JSON format that can encrypted if needed or keys and it led to more server based and portable profile/game states. These were hard fought battles. The best part of JSON or keyed data is less profile conversions for one new key that shifts everything by a set position. Keys can be added and removed and you don't break the entire game save. Binary blobs for game formats/saves/states is still a massive problem in gamedev. They have given many people a bad time when the profile conversion or state conversion fails and you end up with borked states. Almost impossible for that to happen with a keyed format like JSON. Getting studios to use it, especially early in dev to work with server/mobile dev was a massive challenge.

This is a good reminder for me to make a physical backup of my game saves on Steam cloud

number6 4y ago

"Your save is incompatible to the current version of the game."

stodor89 4y ago
Dirt Rally: "Your save is made under different operating system and is thus incompatible"
- trinovantes 4y ago
  Imagine a game save that uses OS dependent line breaks as delimiters. I joke but I fear there's some game out there that actually does this.
  - stodor89 4y ago
    "Closed-source" and "industry secrets" are holding gamedev back big time. We get away with many practices that'd be considered backwards by a web developer even 10 years ago, and we have no viable solutions to many gamedev-specific problems. This in turn leads to just the same stuff being re-made again and again since like 2005 or so.
- gpderetta 4y ago
  I had started playing Skyrim on an XBOX360. A few years later I got it for my pc as well. I was amazed when I found out I could easily extract the save file form the console and use it on the PC version of Skyrim without any issues! Best part is that I was running Skyrim (and the extraction tools) on Linux under wine (this was before proton even).
drawkbox 4y ago
Game industry is notorious for binary blob game state. I worked at many and where possible converted to a keyed/JSON format that can encrypted if needed or keys and it led to more server based and portable profile/game states. These were hard fought battles. The best part of JSON or keyed data is less profile conversions for one new key that shifts everything by a set position. Keys can be added and removed and you don't break the entire game save. Binary blobs for game formats/saves/states is still a massive problem in gamedev. They have given many people a bad time when the profile conversion or state conversion fails and you end up with borked states. Almost impossible for that to happen with a keyed format like JSON. Getting studios to use it, especially early in dev to work with server/mobile dev was a massive challenge.