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Gamemaker Essentials

You're reading from   Gamemaker Essentials Learn all the essential skills of GameMaker: Studio and start making your own impressive games with ease

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2015
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ISBN-13 9781784396121
Length 154 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Publishing your game


Once a game has been created, exported, and ready for release, it's time to publish the game and share it with people. There are many ways to go about this and each platform has its own options. The Windows platform is the cheapest and easiest option, which makes it the most common with GameMaker developers.

Publishing a game is the process of releasing the game to the public and allowing people to play it through some means. This could be on a personal website or by using a distribution service. Any game made with GameMaker is free to distribute as you wish, so distribution options are ultimately limitless.

YoYo Player

The YoYo Player is a new game distribution service from YoYo Games. This allows people who own GameMaker to upload their games for other people to play. The YoYo Player is often referred to as the GameMaker version of Steam.

Before we can upload a game, we must first have a player account. This can be created from directly inside the YoYo Player itself when...

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