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saving game

Posted: Thu Jul 09, 2015 9:59 pm
by Flyerfan29
I have been playing AT for a few years. I have had to restart my quest a couple times with the acquisition of new phones. Presently on a Samsung S3, new phone coming soon! Am I missing something, or is there no way to save the game and pick it up on another device. Other android games save to a FB account using your email address as a way to retrieve it. Anything similar here, or a way to retrieve your quest. Thank you, great job. Anxiously awaiting the update especially a Lodar shortcut:-)

Re: saving game

Posted: Thu Jul 09, 2015 10:37 pm
by rijackson741
Plug your phone into your PC via the USB. Browse to the folder "andors-trail" on the phone. You will see files with names "savegame1", "savegame2", etc. Those are your saved games. Copy them to the PC, plug in your new phone, and copy them back to the same folder on the new phone.

Even if you are not intending to switch phones anytime soon it takes a while to build up your character in AT, so it's a good idea to back up your saved games to your PC. You never know when you might fall in a river with your phone because you are texting while walking, or your ex dumps you and erases your saved games for revenge because you spend more time paying attention to AT than you do to them, etc.

Re: saving game

Posted: Fri Jul 10, 2015 1:24 am
by Flyerfan29
Ok, will do. Didn't now if there was another way but that will work. Thank you

Re: saving game

Posted: Fri Jul 10, 2015 5:04 am
by Zukero
More generally, your saves are located in /sdcard/andors-trail/
You can then use Dropbox, Google drive, es file explorer or any other file management app to do what you wish.

Re: saving game

Posted: Fri Jul 10, 2015 5:20 am
by Flyerfan29
Cool, thank you

Re: saving game

Posted: Fri Jul 10, 2015 6:55 am
by Trang Oul
Flyerfan29 wrote:Other android games save to a FB account using your email address as a way to retrieve it. Anything similar here, or a way to retrieve your quest.
Most games uses Google Saved Games.
It'd be nice to have that feature :) .

Re: saving game

Posted: Fri Jul 10, 2015 8:33 am
by Zukero
Nope. That would mean violating two principles:
- Requiring more permissions
- Using non-free libraries (potentially violating the GPL license by the way).

Saves as they are are easy to manage, and give you the freedom to use the service of your choice, if any.