Update pop-up

Does any one think there would be some way to write a script that gives an update pop-up when an update is released through a program, sort of like the updating on the Xbox 360. I'm not exactly requesting it, just wondering if any one thinks it's possible. It would probably require knowledge of Windows API.

It would probably require knowledge of Windows API.

Not necessarily. There are certainly ways to do this with Ruby alone, but it really depends on how you would want the game client to be aware of the availability of updates coming in from upstream. Honestly, we would probably create a binary file with some arbitrary data in the game's root directory and compare its contents with the contents of a binary file from your own server. If they match, the game is up-to-date; if not, an update is required.

That's a pretty good idea, I might hire someone to do something like that sometime.