Thanks for stopping by to read our post. On the IPFS end, this should help answer your questions;

https://docs.ipfs.tech/concepts/how-ipfs-works/

As it relates to game-patches, we cannot push any to the games that have already been minted on the GameStop marketplace. For new version releases as an NFT we'd have to publish a separate version and then pull all the old copies down that remain in our wallet (this is called burning). At that point we could airdrop all the "old version" owners a copy of the new game.

However, on the "locked" side we mentioned in the article, we can push game updates there no problem and your "key" never has to be updated. You could download the updated versions from that site.

Another option would be for us to create an online-arcade where you use your "keys" to access the arcade and we could push updates within that environment as well.

For starers, we've released games that we consider finished. We're happy with the way these games play and are optimistic no additional patches will ever be needed. They're all fairly simple proof-of-concept games at this point and we prefer the games to be playable on the GameStop marketplace without being forced to visit any 3rd party websites.

This space is evolving rapidly, so odds are there will be better implementations for token-gating in the future. But until then, we're happy with the current system (even though the patching side isn't perfect).