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Bombing!! 2: A Graffiti Paradise

Explore for hidden secrets, meet interesting friends, unlock painting tools, and fill your world with colour! · By Devon Wiersma

Save sharing?

A topic by Saturniin created May 22, 2024 Views: 63 Replies: 1
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I'd like to send my save to all my friends who have this game so that they could see my work, paint some stuff or even paint some stuff over my work if they like. Basically like when you'd share your neighborhood in the sims so you could have friends make NPCs for your game. I'm looking to enhance the sense of community by having a joint save that everyone contributes to.

Trouble is, I can't find the save file, so I first wanted to ask if anyone else could. Second I wanted to request some official support be added for this, as a canvas this large I believe would benefit from even asymmetrical and loose multiplayer - so maybe a button in-game (or an external script, or both) to import and/or concatenate save files additively, such that two people playing at the same time could easily add their work to the same save file. 


EDIT: Reading other community posts I found the save file location and I see that it's made up of smaller pieces with even smaller subpieces, which is extremely convenient for what I have planned! Likely nothing would need to change in order for me to simply set up a github which will update using the automatically generated save files from the game and unless two people paint in the same general location things likely won't be overwritten. That said, for those rare cases of large surfaces that multiple players might want to use simultaneously it would be nice to be able to automate the process of joining conflicting saves together.

I recommend that other players try this, by the way. The save files are in AppData/LocalLow/Devon Wiersma/Paintable Saves and if you tell your friends to always update their save before they play it's very unlikely to have anything overwritten. Start your own graffiti community with your online friendgroup!

Developer

Apologies for the delayed response!

Just confirming for others but yes, you're 100% correct - save files can be found in AppData/LocalLow/Devon Wiersma/Paintable Saves and can be zipped/copy-pasted out to other folks or backed up from there.

Officially supporting save sharing actually isn't something I had considered when originally developing the game, but it's definitely an interesting idea. Honestly the save system has been my white whale throughout development and even just optimizing them for sharing is something I'd be interested in tackling. I'll add revisiting the save system to my list and see if I'd be able to spin up something that could make it easier, who knows! :)

Also, if you and your friends make any cool art please do feel free to share as well - this idea sounds very fun and I'd love to see what y'all make!