Question for Mac Users!

Winterfire

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I am currently developing a game (this: ) and I plan on releasing a mac version eventually but there's a problem: I do not know the "default" save location for mac.

By looking on google I have found various information but nothing that screams "This is the standard way", I know that games handle saving differently and there is no universal way however Windows has "My games/namegame" which is, in theory, the place where game data is kept so my question is: Does Mac have a similar place where game data is kept and if so, where is it?

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And if there is nothing similar on mac, where would you like your saves to be stored the most?

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I googled some more and found out that Mac has also a "documents" folder, does it also contain a "My Games" folder or the standard practice is to save directly on it? so documents/gamename/savedata?
 

Julio

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Macs version of Windows %appdata% would be ~/Library/Application Support. I would suggest storing here to keep it out of the documents folders just because it's for documents, not game saves.
 
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