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>> [...] moving onto the next game after a few weeks of post-launch support [...]

How do you handle patches for prior games into your workflow (i.e. long-term maintenance)? Do you build up an issue queue and then work on patches in between major releases?

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That's exactly how I do things. I'm very glad that by distributing digitally, it's incredibly easy to roll out small fixes that are applied as incremental patches, so I don't tend to 'save up' for major updates. A benefit that comes with a stable engine is that it's already been tested on a wide variety of hardware, so most of the issues I fix are very rare gameplay bugs.

Hi , Can you tell us how you are rolling out patches to your unity client. As far as I know unity doesn't have an inbuilt updater. But there are few plugins on the unity asset store which do that. But they don't cover all scenarios.

As I sell mainly on Steam, Steam handles the updating, it works out the diff and updates the files that have changed.

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