How to Build and Test your Unity Game

In this section we will look at deployment options, so that when we create games we want to share with other developers, testers/friends to participate in testing and to the world.

Game-Galaxy2D@Shooter

There are different options to deploy - such as for PC, Windows, Mac, Web and other mobile devices -iOS or Android.

Here we will look into how to build game for PC, Mac & linux — I am taking an example of Mac..

To get started, go to File-> Build Settings. From here you can see the different Scenes in Build with indexes 0,1. Platform section — which you can select of your choice to deploy your game , default is PC, MAC & Linux Standalone and choose the target platform of your choice- Mac OS X or Windows.

From File->Build Settings

From Build Settings , one can select the Player Settings and change company name, the product name, and set a version number for the game.

One can also set things like the resolution, whether the game is Full Screen or Windowed. one can also customize an icon for the game or a splash screen if license version allows customized splash screens and other additional settings if needed.

Build Setting-> Click on Player Settings & change company name, product name & version.

Next when click build and select the folder where we want the build saved in folder Demo->GalaxyShooterMacDemo executable

Deployment on Mac-> Build Saved in Folder

When clicked on this executable — it will open in specified window as shown below..

Deployed and Played in Mac

And now we can play and test our game or even share the game with others……!!

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