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Re:Show HN: Angeldust – a fast and efficient video game by lokedhs on Monday December 23, 2019 @06:24PM (#21868432)
I've seen some games downloading assets after the application is started. Did you consider implementing it like that?
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Re:Show HN: Angeldust – a fast and efficient video game by ItsFirefly on Tuesday December 24, 2019 @06:13AM (#21871241)
I considered it, then dropped it. The Google Play Store definitely has a mechanism of adding more data/bundles to your application, but (when I investigated this) you'd need to drag in Google-provided libraries and tie your app to the Google Play Store. I dislike lock-in and do my best to be able to independently develop and distribute my product. So expansion files/bundles didn't look interesting.

To compensate, the Itch.io Android APK is actually pretty much identical to the Google Play Store version, but it just includes all 3D assets too.

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