thenocturnaldev / game-launcher

Designed for Intersect ORPGs, easily distribute game updates to players using your personal Google Drive account.

Game Launcher (Google Drive Powered)

Designed for Intersect ORPGs, easily distribute game updates to players using your personal Google Drive account.

This is a very basic game updater/launcher for Intersect games and all kinds of projects in general. This updater is open source so you're free to modify it to your liking. Powered by Google drive, you create a google drive folder with your game client. When you add/remove/change files in your google drive folder, the updater will make those same changes for all of your players.

Updater Pros & Cons

Pros:

• Easy to setup.
• Free.
• Open source.
• Very easy to release updates.
• Only downloads changed files.
• Can resume updates that fail. (or if the program is restarted)

Cons:

• Limited customization.
• Windows only.
• Several setup steps, but easy if you can follow directions.
• Slower than other updating methods.
• Likely will not be developed further!

##Setup Steps

I don't want to keep updating setup steps both on here and AGD. So for now, until I get some universal documentation, you can find the setup steps here.

###Step ???: Releasing Future Update

• To release updates, just go to your Google drive folder and add/remove/replace files. The updater will do the rest!