In the second case, your game file becomes bigger, for larger games that is not a problem but for small games embedded JRE could be, for example, 300% of the game size (at today, JRE weight is about 20MB). Java Runtime Environment (JRE) must be installed or you have to embed JRE with your game.Else, you force people to download large files each time you have an updated version. You have to create patches and deploy new files to be downloaded each time you have a new version of the game after a bug fix or new feature.Also, you have to make different installers for each platform, an example of that is Revenge of the Titans (ROTT) from Puppy Games. As a developer, you have to implement an installer.As a developer, you can implement something to download patches and apply them. Users have to download a patch each time there is a new version.It is the only way to deploy a game in portals like Steam, Altitude Game is an example of that.User knows where the game is installed and sometimes decides where he wants to install it. The game can be played offline when it has no online requirements. The user has to download the game to run it on his machine, probably it comes with an installer to install the game before he can play it. We want to talk a bit about some of them. When you develop Java games for PC, you have different ways to deploy them.
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