Streamlining Downloads for a Better Experience on MacVG

3/5/2024By Tony


We completely recoded the MacVG download button to improve the user experience significantly while helping us work less.

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We're shutting down the old download button in MacVG for several good reasons:

We're shutting down the old download button in MacVG for several good reasons: 1. More than 80% of the games won't work when downloaded and run on file protocol because they're based on the Unity game engine. 2. There are too many requests for us to process, and most of the games requested won't work because of the previous reason anyway. 3.There are legal and ethical issues with licensing, distribution, and copyright on many games. Using a Google form for download requests is slow, inefficient, and unprofessional. So, we've decided to remove the download button for all games that don't work and only keep it for games with a free distribution license that work on file protocol. This way, we tackle three big problems at once. We've also done away with the Google form and Google Drive setup. Instead, we’ve zipped the folders (a smart and simple solution). Now, when users click the download button, the zipped folder will automatically download. They can then unzip it and enjoy the games offline, making sure they're playing copyright-free games without us having to process so many download requests.

Other Improvements, Changes, and Fixes include:

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