Hammerland

Action RPG with Bitcoin economy · By megogame

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A topic by Amos created Dec 02, 2016 Views: 147 Replies: 1

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Amos7 years ago

Hey there!

I see the game's files are hosted on Amazon S3 right now. May I suggest using https://itch.io/docs/butler instead?

You can automate releases with it (which I assume is what you're doing with S3)
Pushing small updates is faster (because it only uploads what changed) — it's also faster for https://itch.io/app users, because they only download a small patch
Files will be served via itch.io's CDN, which is much faster than a storage service such as S3

Additionally I recommend shipping a .zip file for the macOS build instead of a .dmg file — this will allow incremental upgrades for https://itch.io/app users.

Let me know if you have any questions!

Amos7 years ago

Another tip! I see you have a launcher that asks for login — for itch.io users, you can require an API key in the app manifest: https://itch.io/docs/itch/integrating/manifest.htm... — this will let you retrieve itch.io user information as well as making sure they bought the game, without them needing to register on an external site.