Sharing Your Game

Only people have who have Unity can play your game right now. You can build (package your game up) your project so that you can send it to your friends to try out.

When you build your game, you are creating an executable file for the specific system that you choose. That could be PC, Mac, or Linux. Or it could be on a mobile platform!

• To build a game go (File > Build Settings).

• In the Platform menu make sure PC, Mac, Linux Standalone is selected. Make sure the Target Platform is the operating system you’re using.

• Click Player Settings in the bottom right. This will bring up the Player Settings in the Inspector. Put your nickname (or have fun and make up your own company name) in for the CompanyName and make a game name for the Product Name. You can also set the Default Icon to the “GameIcon”.

• Back in the Build Settings click Build and Run. Save your game as anything you want (we used UnityIntermediateSushi). Make sure you remember the location you save it to (it’s a good idea to put it in its own new folder) so you can find it later!

• If a message pops up about accessing Unity services, just click “Yes” to continue.

• A window should pop-up with some settings. Make sure the resolution is the same as the resolution you used in your standalone Game View in Unity. Also make sure Windowed is checked!

• Click Play!

• All you need is to give your friends the files and folders that were created in the folder you saved the game to and they can play your new game! (Our file and folder were called UnityIntermediateSushi.exe and UnityIntermediateSushi_Data for windows. For Mac there was just a file called UnityIntermediateSushi.app, and no folder).