Project End - Platform Selection and Building

We have reached the final lap. The game and level design is ready, as are the gameplay, player, enemies, and UI, too.

Now we have to make a final build. This will make it possible to upload our game, and share it with our friends and the community.

We are going to build our project for Windows computers and Android mobile devices, for which, of course, we will need a joystick or keyboard.

The following topics will be covered in this final chapter:

• Platform selection and settings
• Building the game
• Android installation

Platform selection and settings

As we have planned from the very first chapter, we are going to build the game for the platform we aimed at. Unity is one of the most multi-platform engines, and with all their experience, they have accomplished an easy way to let us build for more than one single platform.

In order to do this, we will have to follow these steps for each platform:

1. Add all the right scenes to the Scenes in Build list.
2. Drag the scene that you want to be the first to the top position in the list.
3. Select your chosen platform.
4. Configure the resolution and presentation.

Once our game is finished, tested, and we feel like it is well polished, it is time to build it.

Scene settings

As we did before, to open the Build...

Building the game

No matter which platform we want to build to, the final step involves going back to the Build Settings and clicking on the Build button:

Windows

After that, we will be asked to select a location and name for our files. Once we've provided these, click on Save and wait for the build to be completed. This may take a while:

We will need all these files to execute the game. So, if we want to share it, it might be more comfortable to zip them and share it afterwards.

Android

When trying to build to Android, we might get the following message:

This...

Summary

So this is it, travelers, the moment we all have been waiting for since we opened the book in Chapter 1, Game Design - Introduction. We have built our first ever game—congratulations to us! To you!

In this chapter, we went through the necessary steps to build our game once the project is finished, including the need of the Resolution and Presentation settings, as well as the importance of the scene list order.

We also had encounters with plugins that needed to be downloaded to accomplish our Android build, both the JDK and SDK, and we shouldn't forget the Unity plugin, which makes all of this possible.

For the first time, we have the final build, the final file in our hands, and we can share it with our family, friends, community, or just feel proud because we concluded this challenge successfully.

Me, Ellen, the Chompers, the Spitters, the Gunners and Grenadiers...