How do version numbers in programs mean? (Build, Major, Minor, etc.)?

Question

Hey I'm making a game. And I need to know what Build, Major, Minor, and Release mean. Please explain it so its easy to understand please.

Answer 1

As a general rule of thumb:

xx.yy.zz

Where xx is your major build version.

yy is the minor number

and zz is the maintainance number.

In principle, in subsequent releases, the major number is increased when there are significant jumps in functionality, the minor number is incremented when only minor features or significant fixes have been added, and the revision number is incremented when minor bugs are fixed.

Also, when a program is still a work-in-progress (e.g beta or prototype) the major number is usually zero (e.g Version 0.1 means a very early release).

After that, version 1 means a program that is out of beta and every subsequent number after that means the program has usually been overhauled or upgraded significantly.