LÖVE

First off, sorry if this has been asked before, I searched and couldn't find it.

So when you use love.filesystem.setIdentity(path) or t.identity in the conf.lua file, it appends what you put to a directory called LOVE in your appdata directory, giving me a path such as C:\Users\<user>\appdata\Roaming\LOVE\<identity>

I'm wondering if I could get a path such as C:\Users\<user>\appdata\Roaming\<identity>
i've tried using "\b\b\b\bidentity"
and even string.format("\b\b\b\bidentity")

but love2d seems to ignore the backspace escape character for setting the identity

Any help would be appreciated!

First, you need to set t.release to true inside your love.conf function:
When you fuse your game and distribute it, LÖVE will make the game save in its own folder. See wiki pages Config_Files and Game_Distribution for more information.

Thanks so much, why does it seem all the things I can't figure out how to do end up being the simplest things in the world?

SquareMan wrote:Thanks so much, why does it seem all the things I can't figure out how to do end up being the simplest things in the world?

Because you don't read the entire wiki homepage links

No worries. And yeah, remember that the wiki is your friend.

I don't want my game files to be in a folder called LOVE, so how can I change that?

Bigmacbook wrote:I don't want my game files to be in a folder called LOVE, so how can I change that?

Use the standard lua io library. This is less than desirable though; you'd have to write your own means of doing what love.filesystem does.

Lafolie wrote:Use the standard lua io library. This is less than desirable though; you'd have to write your own means of doing what love.filesystem does.

No, I wouldn't recommend that. Simply set t.release to true in love.conf: From what I gather, you're meant to use this when your game is final (or, released).

EDIT: I just realised this was the original question of the topic, which I answered before. In future, Bigmacbook, try reading some of the answers given already, instead of repeating the topic's question.

This is an old thread, but it still comes up in search results, so i thought I would update with my 2 cents.

I just tested on 0.9.1 and 0.9.2 on mac os 10.6. All i needed to do was 'fuse' the game using these instructions, and it created my game's save folder in ~/Library/Application Support/game not ~/Library/Application Support/LOVE/game. For mac at least it doesn't seem to need the t.identity variable set in conf.lua, but i'm leaving it in just in case other platforms use it.