How do you manage your Free and Paid Android/iOS game(C#)

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Hello,

I was wondering how do you manage your Unity3D project when you have a Free and Paid game in term of code maintenance as well as buids.

1. Code Maintenance

Free Version ( com.game.freeversion )

I would limit the free version to the first 15 Levels and have the other one locked. I was thinking to define a preprocessor block like

   #define LITE
     ...      
     #if LITE            
       freeVersion = true;          
     #endif

     if(freeVersion) { ... }

As far as i understood, when you have '#define LITE' in the code(at the top of the source), LITE is implicitly set to TRUE. If not defined, it is FALSE. As a consequence, to build my lite version of the project i need to add this line dynamically, maybe with an 'ant' task before compiling the project, which i find really painful

Pro Version( com.game.paidversion )

2. Build

If i want to build both projects in one shot, i guess i would need to have unity3D Pro and play around BuildPipeline.BuildPlayer to manipulate the packagename + set the correct #define in my code.

Do you mind sharing your experiences ? Maybe there is an easy way ;)

Thank you very much

Florent Valdelievre

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Answer by mindlube · Sep 13, 2012 at 05:12 AM

Florent, I can't speak to #2, although I have Pro license, just find #define to be easier. the problem is you have to #define at the top of every script. So you may need global defines plugin from prime31

edit Nov 10 2012: In Unity4, this global define functionality is built-in to the editor: In PlayerSettings | Per-Platform | Other Settings | Configuration : Scripting Define Symbols.

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valdelievre · Sep 13, 2012 at 08:41 AM 0

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Thanks for that, It looks like we need to reimport the project each time we change the global define which might be long on my project, but its an alternative yes. Since i want to build for Android + Ios for LITE and PRO version, it means i would need 4 differents build. I will need to find an automatic way to do it though since i don't want do it through the editor.

How do you manage your Free and Paid Android/iOS game(C#)

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Florent, I can't speak to #2, although I have Pro license, just find #define to be easier. the problem is you have to #define at the top of every script. So you may need global defines plugin from prime31

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