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Changes Coming to How Beta Works
After I get back to work in January, I am going to take a bit of time to update the My Colony web interface a bit, and also change how Beta works. From then on, to play the in-development 'beta' of the game, you will have to put in an address like apewebapps.com/my-colony/beta/, and the regular web app will show the same version that all other platforms are on.
I am making this change because I would like to get more people to use the progressive web app version of My Colony as their main platform, vs the regular app store versions. It can now be "installed" as an app on pretty much any operating system, and it's easier for me to update than all of the stand alone "native" apps. Also as we saw earlier in the year, app stores like Google Play can just nuke the app on a whim, and on my own website, nobody can touch it.
Anyway, it will probably be a few years still before people are more comfortable with PWA's vs native apps, but I do think long term, that is the way a lot of things are going, especially given all of the work both Windows and Android are putting into supporting them. I will of course keep all of the mobile and desktop apps up to date for the foreseeable future, but I can also see a day when web apps become a lot more common place, and I want My Colony (and all of my others) to be ready to go for that time.
So anyway, to sum it up, starting next year, you will no longer have to worry about the web version breaking your game during development cycles, as you will have to manually opt in to using the beta code. Hope that makes sense!
I am making this change because I would like to get more people to use the progressive web app version of My Colony as their main platform, vs the regular app store versions. It can now be "installed" as an app on pretty much any operating system, and it's easier for me to update than all of the stand alone "native" apps. Also as we saw earlier in the year, app stores like Google Play can just nuke the app on a whim, and on my own website, nobody can touch it.
Anyway, it will probably be a few years still before people are more comfortable with PWA's vs native apps, but I do think long term, that is the way a lot of things are going, especially given all of the work both Windows and Android are putting into supporting them. I will of course keep all of the mobile and desktop apps up to date for the foreseeable future, but I can also see a day when web apps become a lot more common place, and I want My Colony (and all of my others) to be ready to go for that time.
So anyway, to sum it up, starting next year, you will no longer have to worry about the web version breaking your game during development cycles, as you will have to manually opt in to using the beta code. Hope that makes sense!
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Accessing the beta version is too complicated. I believe more people will play the beta version if it is included within the regular web app as an experimental mode. That way players can just press a button and enjoy the new features.
I think that's a good change as some players may not even know that they're playing a Dev version.
There could be a button somewhere in the main page ''access beta version'' which leads to the special address, or maybe that's what you meant in that case yes indeed.
username said: Accessing the beta version is too complicated. I believe more people will play the beta version if it is included within the regular web app as an experimental mode. That way players can just press a button and enjoy the new features.
There could be a button somewhere in the main page ''access beta version'' which leads to the special address, or maybe that's what you meant in that case yes indeed.
