Launch a game

Beginner This page explains how to launch your game using Game Studio or Visual Studio.

Launch a game from Game Studio

Note

Game Studio can’t launch games for the Windows Store or UWP (Universal Windows Platform) platforms. To launch a game for those platforms, use Visual Studio (see below).

  • toolbar, select your target platform.
    Note
    Create a new game dialog when you created the project. To add additional platforms to the project, see Add or remove a platform.
  • in the toolbar or press F5. Output window shows the build progress. When the build is complete, your game starts on the selected platform.

    Launch a game from Visual Studio

  • (Open in IDE) to launch Visual Studio.
  • In the Visual Studio toolbar, set the appropriate project as the startup project. The startup project configuration is updated automatically.
    Tip
    .Android, .iOS, etc).
  • Check that the configuration and platform properly matches what you are expected.
    • Ctrl + F5.
  • Start or press F5.

    Remove borders

    By default, the game runs with window borders. To run the game without borders, use:
    1. Game.Window.IsBorderLess = true;
    For example:
    1. using Xenko.Engine;namespace MyGame{    public class MyScript : StartupScript    {        public override void Start()        {            base.Start();            Game.Window.IsBorderLess = true;        }    }}