Integrate working versioning system

[cooperuser]

The game has been at stage 'alpha v0.0.1' since its inception... this needs to change.

[grady404]

Just change the label to "under development" or something for now, don't have a version number until you actually release the game to the public (even if it's not the "official" release).

[cooperuser]

So this entire time, I have been thinking of ways of going about the version labeling system. I think that every time we commit a change, we add 1 to the third digit in the version e.g. v0.0.1, v0.0.2...,

[cooperuser]

And I would consider the jump to GitHub, a +1 to the second digit, so right now we would be at v0.1.21

[grady404]

I wouldn't use that yet, since we're still in the development phase. I think the way this will work eventually is, we'll make this GitHub thing private (because we're going to sell the game, right?) and just use it privately for the development process. That way, we don't have to bump up the version for every little change we add, we only release an update when we've made a lot of small changes. The rightmost digit is bugfixes/minor improvements, the middle digit is new content, and the leftmost digit is complete overhauls to the entire game.

[cooperuser]

that makes sense, but isn't what we are currently doing small bugfixes and minor improvements?

[grady404]

Yeah, but we don't need to increment the rightmost number for every single bugfix/improvement, we should only do that when there are a lot of minor improvements.

[grady404]

When we release the game into alpha, it will be paid so we won't keep it public on GitHub anymore, we'll just use this space for private development, and every time we accumulate enough changes we'll push an update.

[grady404]

See my stuff in general discussion/level name and number thread. This thing really needs better notifications

[cooperuser]

hahahahaha http://gitify.io/

[cooperuser]

i was just looking into that

[grady404]

ah thanks so much for that LMFAO

[cooperuser]

but I feel that with this versioning system, previous versions of the game will be easier to document, and keep track of version changes

[grady404]

Doesn't GitHub take care of that anyway?

[cooperuser]

and whats the harm to incrementing the last digit, it isn't in base 10, the number can be like v0.1.123

[grady404]

I know... but then it'll be weird, because the public will see the updates as 0.1.0, 0.1.15, 0.1.33, 0.1.56, etc. so what about this? We add a fourth digit, but we don't actually display it in the game anywhere, we only use it to keep track of it ourselves

[cooperuser]

thats how most games are though

[cooperuser]

for example, webstorm is currently on 2016.2.3, but only ever shows 2016.2 to the user

[grady404]

Not really... I think the fourth digit would be a pretty foolproof system

[grady404]

Yeah that's what I was saying... it doesn't show the fourth digit to the user

[cooperuser]

but the third digit, is our fourth digit, and many games skip around. Pretty much every MMO has the last digit as a long number that jumps upwards

[grady404]

So? We don't have to be like "pretty much every MMO"... I think a fourth digit would be a better way to do it, but it's up to you

[grady404]

And did you fix my "minor thing" or not?

[cooperuser]

oh i havent checked yet

[grady404]

Ok cool, one last minor thing you should fix, for now make the version "indev 0.0.0", and make it so that "indev" versions correspond to purple (the way alpha is red and beta is yellow), and every time you make a change bump up the last digit by 1

[grady404]

Or if you can't do purple, just pick some other color that makes sense

[cooperuser]

okay that works

[cooperuser]

oh and i think i got notifications working