Steam - Cloud Save Support

[crimsonnight]

On Steam it's possible to for the cloud save system to work with a specified directory (see attached). As Ren'Py automatically saves to an external directory (http://www.renpy.org/wiki/renpy/doc/FAQ ... nt_data.3F), I'm looking to specify a dedicated subdirectory within the game's root folder to store the saves and preferences (across all platforms) instead - how do I go about doing this? Thanks in advance!

[philat]

http://www.renpy.org/doc/html/config.ht ... _directory

[crimsonnight]

http://www.renpy.org/doc/html/config.ht ... _directory

Perfect, thank you - I did search before posting but didn't come across that page.

[PyTom]

Note that due to the complexity of Ren'Py, the Ren'Py save format is insecure. That means that if one system is compromised, sync could be used to propagate that attack to another system. You need to decide if that's a risk that should be taken.

[crimsonnight]

Note that due to the complexity of Ren'Py, the Ren'Py save format is insecure. That means that if one system is compromised, sync could be used to propagate that attack to another system. You need to decide if that's a risk that should be taken.

Thanks Tom, noted.

[Dharker]

Hi Tom, sorry to reopen this post, may i ask what the level of danger is if we use the cloud saving for renpy. Id it that they could break the game or does the cloud saving pose a possibility that peoples machines could be hacked if they first hacked the users steam cloud save?

[PyTom]

Basically, if someone hacked machine 1, modified a cloud save, synced it up to steam, then machine 2 downloaded it and the save was loaded, machine 2 could run arbitrary code.

How realistic this is is a question, and it's not clear that Ren'Py is particularly unique in this vulnerability.