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Deployment is the process of delivering game content to players, through in-game self-update systems, launchers, or via platforms like Steam, Google Play, or the Apple App Store.

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I'm currently developing a game on Windows using the MSYS2 environment and mingw64. I've successfully installed SDL2 using the msys package manager (pacman) and using CMake, was able to get it up and ...
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I'm finally done making my game and am almost done putting it on steam (just need to wait for the build to approve). But I've noticed that on the store it says "Notice: This product is not ...
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I'm doing some automated UI testing - I want to programmatically install a game and then launch it. From what I've seen, the Steam client isn't very accessible for UI automation (I can't view elements ...
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I'd like to build and package all the ports of my Unity game through a scripting system. Linux and Windows work fine through the Unity command line options, but there is none for WebGL. For WebGL, ...
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I'm trying to publish a game on the Windows Store using a standalone Windows build in Unity 5.6.2 and Desktop Bridge. Despite unchecking "development build", three Unity DLLs remain in debug mode, ...
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I'm making a launcher for my game (using Unity3d). I want it to have the following features : ...
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I want to make PS Vita games, and starting today, I will sign up as a registered developer with Sony so I can make my indie game for Android available on PS Vita, but i had a question. I know that ...
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This question is related about alpha or beta release in Google Play Store. . Let's say my app (APK file) was uploaded in alpha/beta testing. If one of the testers satisfied or quick fixes on the bugs, ...
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I am probably asking a question answered here already; but I have yet to find the answer! Can anyone here help me with how updates work for your games? I know that through visual basic you can create ...
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I've created a game launcher that I'm pretty proud of :). I use nw.js and so the interface uses html/javascript/css. It makes ajax api calls to my web service that I've written in C# to do things like ...
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I'm currently in the last phases of an original release for my upcoming risk game - I'm looking at making a patching system to autopatch the game. My current concept for it is- 1: Player opens the ...
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I've been making games and I have always had a problem if I wanted to sell a game. People would have to re-buy games to get the updated version. Does anyone have any ideas on how to make a self ...
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From the time I hit "Build & Run", I wait 2 minutes (each) for Unity 5 to push to two different 'Droids. Fresh project, one script to generate a simple mesh, and no other assets. I am deploying ...
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I have been creating a game with java, and before I release it I wanted to make a launcher that is connected to the game's website. Basically I need to make a launcher that updates itself when I have ...
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The Editor version and WebGL version of my Minesweeper clone have some graphics quality differences. I chose 'Fast' option when building this deployment. Is this the difference between 'Fast' and '...
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I would like to let players update their copy of my game by clicking a button, which would: Check for updates Download the update Prompt the user to restart the game I want to do this because my ...
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A game I made ends up not being able to run (it shows the loading screen but after that it gets stuck), happens on nexus 5, sony experia z3 and I found this happening because the game was downloaded ...
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Diablo 3 and StarCraft 2 have a nice feature: I can start playing before the full game or update has finished downloading. I guess Diablo 3 downloads mandatory files like like UI assets and some ...
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I am new to compiling games with libgdx to be played on the web and I have some doubts perhaps someone can point me in the right direction: Using the new gradle setup I wrote a simple game to learn ...
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I'm making some games for Windows now since about 3 years using the Microsoft XNA Framework and C#. Now I finally came to buy myself a Xbox 360 and now I want to deploy some games I converted to Xbox ...
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I've always wondered how games handle libraries. What if you want to use a dynamic library in a game, let's say OpenGL. You could just put it inside the /lib ...
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I'm making a game and I need to load some text files to create levels. After much frustration in trying to get them to work I placed the files in the debug folder of my project (I think this is a bad ...
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How would you make your game check for updates at the beginning of startup, and if there are any updates, how would you make them install? Thanks in advanced
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For my game I'd like to create another project that extends the functionality of libGDX and since it will be an independent project it could be easily reusable. How can I achieve this in Eclipse IDE? ...
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I'm using LibGDX and deploying a runnable jar file, using the Eclipse feature, with libraries extracted into it. There are also .so files and .dlls inside. Is it legal to do so? I didn't find ...
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I just shipped my first working MonoGame in-development game to one of my friends. He got some OpenAL DLL crashes, until he installed OpenAL. Is there a way to include the OpenAL dependencies somehow ...
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I need to demo my XBOX XNA game in college. The college doesn't allow this type of device to connect to the network. I deployed my game to the Xbox and it is sitting in the games list along with my ...
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Just wondering what types of solutions are available to handle patching of PC/Mac games that don't have any sort of auto updater built into them. In windows do you just spin off some sort of new ...
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We're a couple of guys making games for iPod Touch and iPhone. I personally have an iPhone 4 with the retina display and I'll be using this as my main test device. I have an opportunity to purchase a ...
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I was told by a company that better than putting an installer on a CD would be allowing the user to run the demo directly from the CD. Is this even possible when the demo might require things such as ...
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There are several applications like Blitz3D or other kinds of game construction tools that compile scripts or other game data to a single executable file. How do they do that?
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I've almost finished a PC game (I'm releasing it in a day or two). I'd like a way to easily release patches over the net in case I find a bug in the game right after release, or in case I want to add ...
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I want to create an installer for a game which allows for an icon to be put in the Games Explorer for Vista and Windows 7. I have created the GDF, then built the script for project and obtained the ....
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