i would imagine that any game that does this would either have to be linked to a server and there must be logic in the game that checks to see what the current version is, and if it is not the latest then direct the user to a site for the latest download...


--Mike

sure... you could do it that way... at least i think you could... i've never tried it...

but then your app assumes the responsibility of downloading it , putting it in the right place, and then running the install... unless there is no install and you are just updating assets...

plenty of room for error and system intervention here...

i think it would be simpler, and the user would be more comfortable being told to go to the place where he/she could get it, and let them download and run the install...

but it's up to you...


--Mike

Mike - I see what you mean there, thanks.
Facujk101 - Thanks, I think I'll stick to checking for updates.

yes it's possible, a project i'm working on simply downloads a text file from one of my free webpages.

Process's that number into it's value to compare as the program version number.

all total maybe 5 lines of script that run once at program startup.

if the version is different then an update is available and a pre-set download link can be used to download and install the new version.

Exactly what I thought, although Mike was right in the fact that if the player extracts the game from a zip into a different folder of his/her computer, for example, then the update would be for nothing and/or would mess up the game before the update.