Questions tagged [patching]
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21 questions
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Minimizing patch size with Addressables
I'm working on a cross-platform Unity game for release on mobile and on a console. Our game content is all loaded through Addressables. We want to leverage Addressables to minimize the size of patches ...
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How can I make an update patch for a Unity game on Windows?
I ran into trouble making a PC game using Unity. If I try to update my game, I can't a update the C# scripts (because AssetBundles don't include C# scripts) So I think I'll need to use a server and ...
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How to make an additional in-game content download (patching) for first time launching the Mobile Store Game?
this is a pretty common but I googled everywhere and nothing. When there is a game with very big download size, more than 500MB for example, I often saw that the additional game content is being ...
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2 answers
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Making an auto patcher
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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In GameMaker Studio, how can I make an auto-updater for my game?
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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6 answers
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How can I maintain saved game backward compatibility?
I have a complex sim game I want to add save game functionality to. I'll be updating it with new features continually after release. How can I make sure my updates don't break existing save games? ...
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6 votes
2 answers
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How do "community patches" for commercial games work?
For a lot of games, mostly role-playing games (Gothic 3, Oblivion, Skyrim, Titan Quest to name a few), there exist community patches. So, patches that are made by the communities, not by the ...
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How do patches in games work?
Console and PC games have patches sometimes to fix bugs which the developers missed/didn't have time to fix. My question is how do these work? Sometimes the patch files are a few megabytes in size. ...
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