Hello everyone! 👋😃

If you tried to download "Several Snek!" shortly after release, you may have noticed that it was not possible to play the game, as when you attempted to either create or join a game you would get an error message stating that you were on an "invalid game version." I am happy to announce that this has been resolved and you should be able to create and join games successfully now! You will not need to update the game at all, as this was an issue on the server end. 

Why did this happen?? 😡

The current way that I had been handling game versioning is by including three bits of information:

• Version type, such as DEV or RELEASE
• The current version (using Semantic versioning) i.e., 1.1.44 (The first release version)
• The date the build of the current version was created

For example, the release of the first version is labeled as:

RELEASE Version (1.1.44) - 9/14/2023

The last part of the build version, the date, is what caused the problem. When I went to build the final version to be uploaded to itch.io, the build type and version did not change, being "RELEASE 1.1.44," but the date dd change, from 9/12/2023 to 9/14/2023, making the version appear as: 

RELEASE Version (1.1.44) - 9/12/2023

Because the actual build version did not change, I overlooked that I needed to change this on the server end as well, causing the game to think that the versions were different, even though they weren't.

I will be going through and changing how this is checked, in order to prevent issues like this from happening again in the future.

I am really sorry for any inconvenience this may have caused you if you were looking forward to trying the game, and I hope this won't deter you from still trying it. This is my first time releasing a game to the public, so I expect there to be some bumps in the road.

Please let me know as soon as possible if you find any other issues with the game, so I can fix them and make the game as fun of an experience as possible for everyone!