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Love of Magic

An adult game about romance, magic and poker. · By droid productions

Where has the android files gone?

A topic by Fumperdump created Mar 27, 2023 Views: 293 Replies: 1
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its been ages since ive played this game, now that the second book is dont and tjird is on its way i decided to start the game again. Android builds are gone though, and since my cat decided to destroy my monitor my pc is useless atm. Is there going to be no android versions going forward?

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Android's gone above the 2GB limit, so they'd just crash on load. The last ones that were below 2GB are still available, but to get book 2 and 3 onto Android will take a major chunk of work.

There are some different solutions that might help fix it; some devs do multiple 'bootstrapping' apps (so download app 1.1, that copies its assets, download app 1.2, that copies its assets, then download the actual app, and it continues to use the data). That's... obviously confusing to the player and not ideal.

The industry wide solution is downloading assets from a server, but hosting ~10 GB worth of data for each player is obviously not cheap. On Itch.io they'll host my actual app, but they won't host raw data like that.

TL;DR: It's a work in progress... I'm hoping to get back to it when I'm done with Book 3.