Shortcut creation script for LAN games

BushLAN.py

from __future__ import print_function
import os
import ctypes
import win32api
import win32con
import win32com.client
import getpass

#Get windows username
username = getpass.getuser()

#Get screen res
user32 = ctypes.windll.user32
x = user32.GetSystemMetrics(0)
y = user32.GetSystemMetrics(1)

#Set our parent dir path
if 'BushLAN' not in os.path.abspath(os.path.dirname(__file__)):
    print('Script must be run from BushLAN folder')
    exit(1)
else:
    bushlanpath = os.path.abspath(os.path.dirname(__file__))

# Get some steam vars
try:
    hKey = win32api.RegOpenKey(win32con.HKEY_CURRENT_USER, r"Software\Valve\Steam")
    steampath, type = win32api.RegQueryValueEx(hKey, "SteamPath")
    nick, type = win32api.RegQueryValueEx(hKey, "LastGameNameUsed")
except WindowsError:
    print('')

# Decided to use a list to iterate over, then dicts for each game. Could be handled as json I think

games = [
    {
        'tpath': 'Quake',
        'name': 'Quake',
        'exe': 'Darkplaces.exe',
        'arguments': '-width {x} -height {y} -bpp 32 -fullscreen 1'
    },
    {
        'tpath': 'Quake3',
        'name': 'Quake3',
        'exe': 'ioquake3.x86.exe',
        'arguments': '+set r_customwidth {x} +set r_customheight {y} +set r_mode -1 {o}'
    },
    {
        'tpath': 'Age of Mythology',
        'name': 'AoM',
        'exe': "aomx.exe",
        'arguments': 'xres={x} yres={y} bpp=32 +noIntroCinematics'
    },
    {
        'tpath': 'Unreal Tournament\\System',
        'name': 'UT99',
        'exe': 'UnrealTournament.exe',
        'arguments': ''
    }
]


def makeshortcut(tpath, name, exe, arguments):

    workingdir = os.path.join(
        bushlanpath,
        tpath
    )
    shell = win32com.client.Dispatch("WScript.Shell")
    fullpath = os.path.join(
            workingdir,
            os.path.abspath(os.path.dirname(__file__)),
            "{0}.lnk".format(name)
        )

    shortcut = shell.CreateShortCut(fullpath)
    shortcut.Targetpath = os.path.join(
        workingdir,
        exe
    )
    shortcut.Arguments = arguments
    shortcut.WorkingDirectory = workingdir
    shortcut.save()
    print('Created shortcut {} at {}'.format(
        name, fullpath
    ))


if __name__ == '__main__':
    print('Hello {}!'.format(username))
    print('I think your resolution is {}x{}'.format(x, y))
    print('Your Steam is located at {}'.format(steampath))
    print('The last name you used on steam was {}'.format(nick))
    #makeshortcut('Quake3', 'Quake3', 'ioquake3.x86.exe', '')

    # setting up o for options, still thinking about how to do this properly for mods etc
    o = None
    for game in games:
        makeshortcut(game['tpath'], game['name'], game['exe'], game['arguments'].format(
            x=x, y=y, o=o)
        )