Path not included in links

[Fred]

In my home directory, I have a subdirectory for a game.
eg. /home/foobar/game/

I play the game often, so I want to have a shortcut for the game on the desktop, so I can just double-click on the icon on the desktop instead of open the directory all the time.

So I middle-click on the executable file and move to desktop and choose "Link Here" in the menu.

So that I have a icon on the desktop called "Game" that links to /home/foobar/game/executable

But it does not work.
Because the executable tries to read a data file which resides in its own directory, e.g /home/foobar/game/data.moo

So when I click on the link, it searches for data.moo on the desktop instead of its own directory.
It searches for data.moo in /home/foobar/Desktop/data.moo when it actually should be looking for it in /home/foobar/game/data.moo

[Ralph Janke (txwikinger)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this issue and helping to make Ubuntu better. Examining the information you have given us, this does not appear to be a bug report so we are closing it and converting it to a question in the support tracker. We appreciate the difficulties you are facing, but it would make more sense to raise problems you are having in the support tracker at https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu if you are uncertain if they are bugs. For help on reporting bugs, see https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ReportingBugs .