For more information on Steam, please see: Depending on how you have configured your project in Steamworks, you then either upload the zip itself or (more commonly/historically) you extract the zip temporarily and then upload the loose files and folders to maintain the file structure. Note that if you want to publish games on Steam then you must make a zip package - if you send Steam an installer executable, then the game will fail to work for players. It will be a standalone executable and no shortcuts are made. The other option, ' Package as Zip' will create a compressed ZIP file which the user then has to extract on their computer to run. This ensures that all the files that your project requires are installed along with the project and that Windows treats the game as a proper installed application - so your player will get shortcuts and the game will appear in the control panel to uninstall later, etc. We strongly recommend that you use the ' Package as Installer' option for general distribution. You will then be prompted to select from one of two options presented (this choice may not be shown if you have changed the default value in the Preferences, or have previously selected 'Remember Packaging Option?'): For Windows, this is very easy to do and simply involves you hitting the Create Executable button at the top of the IDE:

Once you have everything setup, have finished your game and have thoroughly tested it to make sure that everything works, you'll presumably want to distribute it as an executable package to pass (or sell) to others. If you haven't already set up the Windows target, then you should do that first before continuing. In this article we explain how to compile your game for the Windows platform ready to distribute to other people to play.

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