Weekly Update! Fun and exciting news!

Have some pretty exciting news!

Like I've told y'all before that I've been looking up a way for y'all to auto-update your game without needing to download the full file every time I change a single line or fix a small bug. And we have super promising results.

It has been tested for both Mac and PC, android will have a slightly different thing, but it seems to be working pretty well!

For the Early Access releases, Patrons will be granted a key to put into their game, and once that's in, you will have access to the newest updates. In fact, we are able to go one step further and straight up, there's just no need y'all to download a new file from MEGA or GoFile anymore if you want to play the new version, it wouldn't surprise me if y'all get the game downloaded before I finish posting/ writing the new update post haha. And of course the usual "if the key is used too many times / is sus it'll get blocked" will be there.

So for the public players, things will largely be the same for y'all, sorry bout that. Cause the server charges us for downloads, and we ain't exactly swimming in cash at the moment, but we will be able to check for the latest updates for y'all so y'all know where to download it and/or know you're playing an older version! 

Ultimately it's a win/win for everyone me thinks!

On a different note, I've also been talking to some patrons and subscribers, and a lot of them have been more or less telling me similar stories that the supporter benefits aren't really good, and that there's not much difference between being a support or not. So here are the stuff that we'll have!

I'm thinking of bringing back the point system we had back in the Nano-control days and allow y'all to exchange it for outfits and/or scenarios like the old days, and the outfits can pretty much be anything non-canon, and we'll give those outfits to supporters to play with, which y'all do seem to enjoy from what I remember haha.

I'm also hoping that the new auto-updater will be a huge enough QoL improvement that will make being a supporter worth it, that's my hope anyway haha.

On right, we have a webpage now: www.smilingdog.games
Currently the API for Subscribe Star isn't working quite yet unfortunately cause we're pending approval form Subscribe Star, but it shouldn't be too long until it works!

I have also started annual packages, which is a pretty good deal if y'all are looking to support for a longer span of time, so do check it out!

So yeap yeap, that was pretty much what I spent the whole of last week and today doing. Now that it's out of the way, I'll finally be able to work on the games haha.