Distribute a game

When you’re ready to publish your game, create a release build from Visual Studio, then distribute it.

1. Create a release build

• MyGame/Bin/MyPlatform/Release/), delete the Data folder. This folder might contain unnecessary files, such as old versions of assets, so it’s simplest to build it again from scratch.
• Open your project in Game Studio.
• Visual Studio. Your project opens in Visual Studio.
• Solution Configurations drop-down menu, select Release.
• Solution platforms drop-down menu, select the platform you want to create a build for.

  Note

  Add or remove a platform. this MSDN page.
• Build, select Build solution. MyGame/Bin/MyPlatform/Release).

  Tip

  Release folder to something more descriptive (such as the title of your game).

  2. Delete unnecessary files

  MyGame/Bin/MyPlatform/Release), you can delete the following unnecessary files:
• .pdb files (debug information)
• .xml files (API documentation)
• vshost in their filenames (eg MyGame.vshost.exe and MyGame5.vshost.exe.manifest)
• x64, x86, or data folders
• other unnecessary files, such as custom configuration files (ie files not created with Xenko)

  3. Distribute your game

  After you create a release build, how you distribute it is up to you. To run games made with Xenko on Windows, users need:
• .NET 4.6.1
• DirectX11 (included with Windows 10 and later), OpenGL, or Vulkan
• Visual C++ 2015 runtimes (x86 and/or x64, depending on what you set in your project properties in Visual Studio)

  See also

• Add or remove a platform
• Version control
• Project structure