Hey y'all!
Quick thing - I adore the app, but I jump between two machines pretty consistently. Is there a way to sync my saved game progress across those two computers without having to get OneDrive/iCloud involved?
Thanks!
The best solution would be for itch.io to provide a cloud saves API. The developers would still have to add support for it though. An OneDrive/iCloud approach would be really difficult to do because different games have different rules about where and how they create save files.
We do want to provide a cloud saves API, but we're not sure when that will happen right now
You could try poking Amazon and/or Google for a Cloud Server. Game saves are typically under 500 kilobytes in size (usually under 1 MB for most games on here) and the itch devs can even put some limits on the save game file size if needed; make game devs compress their saves before uploading and uncompress them after download (maybe using native 7-zip libraries).
Quick idea which might be flawed:
Let players point the itch.io client to a saves folder (clone) which could a local Dropbox/Gdrive/.. path.
Game(DEV)s (with support) would only specify their local save directory/file per platform and the itch.io client could `rsync` that with the saves folder (a sub folder with the game's id) - at least in Unix based systems that should work out of the box. As an intermediate solution players who know the game's save local folder/file could even specify that per game in the itch.io client themselves.