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Warzone2100 / warzone2100

Command the forces of The Project in a battle to rebuild the world after mankind has been nearly destroyed by nuclear missiles. A 100% free and open source real-time strategy game for Windows, macOS, Linux, BSD+
https://wz2100.net
GNU General Public License v2.0
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List on MacOS AppStore as Open Source game #3003

Open Triloworld opened 1 year ago

Triloworld commented 1 year ago

What I propose feature is to get updates from AppStore

There is Open Source option to distribute game on iOS platform without fee for singing package: https://developer.apple.com/support/membership-fee-waiver/

After enroll it can be added on AppStore globally or automatically update. There is second option to update: https://sparkle-project.org/ It will automatically update game to newest version according to RSS and for many apps it work great

Overall - it will bring people to game and ensure faster updates :)

PS. I don't develop right now on MacOS so i cannot help in that. Will help in website as alternative

past-due commented 1 year ago

It looks like this project would not qualify for the waiver, and (supposedly) the App Store doesn't currently accept GPL-licensed software. The latter, unfortunately, is not something we can resolve - but it's always possible for the App Store terms to change to be compatible / allow it (as some other stores have).

Sparkle is theoretically something we could implement for the macOS version, but there are some security changes in macOS Ventura that may have an impact. Will wait and see how that shakes out.