Hi people! My question is this: when a programmer creates a game in Java and leaves it on the internet, the programmer makes the modifications he wants and the player sees the updates every time he loads the game. In my case I want to create a game using OpenGL but I want to make updates without having to install the game on the computer with each update. Do you understand?
The reason the game will simply update when online is because the game was updated on the database itself, the user had to interaction with it and isn't going to update it themselves.
If you're making a game people have to download and install on their own computer, you'll need to do one of two things:
· Upload the the update, either in installer form or as files that can simply overwrite the existing ones.
· Have the application itself check an online source (a website) for updates to download and install itself in the background