#choicescript game tools

Visually, I've reorganized the menus for managing saves, so those should hopefully be easier to use. I had one question though about whether people actually use the functionality that synchronizes saves across computers. It seems like a nice feature to keep for me, but the actual amount of storage that's available is tiny (100 KB to be precise). Most games use between 2-4 KB, which seemed reasonable to me for a while, but while testing I discovered that some games (e.g. Royal Affairs, which you should all play if you haven't) use significantly more (20 KB before the new compression, 10 KB after). So I'm curious if anyone actually uses the sync capability / if it's worth me maintaining.

Here's a link to some recent posts about savegames (and potential plans from CoG; the tldr is that they currently have no plans to officially implement them):

forum (.) choiceofgames (.) com/t/consolidated-saves-in-choice-of-games-and-hosted-games-thread/33373/158

Thanks for the assurance! I have now made a topic on the CoG forum (https://forum.choiceofgames.com/t/csgt-back-button-save-syncing-variable-notifications-extension-for-firefox/133937 for those interested), I have no idea how interaction works over there but we'll see!

Hey! No worries, didn't realize that I didn't have asks enabled on the other one! I'm going to copy what I said about Android builds from the forum thread:

And will you add support for moody.ink? It's an updated version of dashingdon by the same site creator. It would be great to have support for locally hosted/offline games too (if that's feasible).

Hope that isn't too much to ask. Thanks again for making the plugin! ✌️❤️

Hi, thank you so much for sending this ask! It's really nice to know that the work I've put in is appreciated 😊

I do have an account on the CoG forum, although I don't spend much time there (always felt a little intimidating as I'm not an author per se). I probably should though, is there a particular thread where that discussion is happening?

I'd never heard of moody.ink, that's pretty cool! Thankfully it seems like it should be pretty straightforward for me to add support for it, so I'll be looking into that over the next couple of days. As for locally hosted/offline games, it's a bit trickier, but if it's a desired feature I'd be happy to look into it!

Short informal update because I'm sleepy

Just released a new update to Choicescript Game Tools! Update information is below the cut for those who are interested.

Hey!! I'm really glad you're appreciating it 😊

So Firefox does this weird thing where it lets me mark an extension as being mobile-compatible, and tag it as mobile-compatible, but you can't actually (easily) install it for some reason.

You can technically install it on mobile but the process is kind of a mess, although the Firefox team has indicated that they're working towards allowing more extensions to be used so if that goes through you can bet I'll be updating to support it!

As for the support that exists now, the extension functions decently well on tablets, but phone support is kinda lacking. I do plan to improve this as I much prefer reading on my phone! Also the save syncing does not work at all on mobile (and I've just noticed that seems to have broken a bunch of things, so expect a new version this weekend :P ).