Mojang Style Updating Game?

Unity Engine
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I know about making games. I don’t know crap about how the internet works. I would like to release my game before it’s completely finished and update it as I add more features like Mojang did with Minecraft.

Can someone point me in the right direction?

2

So…

3

So you update the web player every new build.

4

First of all, we’re selling it and it won’t be in a web player.

5

I can think of three ways to do it, off the top of my head:

a) Distribute the bulk of your game as asset bundles that get loaded from your website. I think you’d need Unity Pro.
b) Write a small application to check for a new version on your website before launching.
c) Go the webplayer route in the same way Minecraft does - ensure the player is logged in with a valid registered userid before playing.

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I was thinking of #2 before. How can I make Unity retrieve data from a website?

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I havent used it, but you could use M2H Patcher http://forum.unity3d.com/threads/111671-M2HPatcher-The-Unity-patching-solution

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http://unity3d.com/support/documentation/ScriptReference/WWW.html