This is almost certainly a permissions issue, eg which directories an application is allowed to access. I don't have a Windows 11 system to test on, but I wouldn't be surprised if they changed a bunch of stuff in the name of security.
Do you know of any other 3rd party applications, particularly open source ones with public bug trackers, that have had this kind of issue? If so I could refer to what they did and maybe that'd help us fix this issue.
No idea if it's open source, but I think I remember Your Only Move Is Hustle having adjacent issues at first - but that was made in godot, so the solution was probably something that doesn't really help. As a last ditch effort, I've tried running it as administrator but there was no change.
Actually, as I was writing this I realized that godot engine itself is open source and has public bug trackers... Maybe you could take a look at how it exports executables which mostly avoid being flagged?
What do you mean by "being flagged"? My understanding is that permission issues aren't a result of some "malicious software" detection heuristic, just a set of rules that applications have to follow to be able to do things like access different parts of the file system. Not knowing anything about how those rules might have changed for Win11, I could be wrong but that's my guess as to why you can't get a file listing for certain directories on your system from within Playscii.
You probably understand that better than I would, yeah. I don't know much about permission architecture. Most of my experience in programming is in the aforementioned engine which handles this part for me, as well as some early-life python doodling. Do let me know if you figure this out, but I myself don't have the experience required to help fix the bug; I was just affected by it.
