Building the Game

present it to our players.

One of the greatest things about Unity is that

once we have created our game we can deploy

it to many of the current platforms.

For more detailed information on building and

build targets please see the lesson linked below.

Before we build our game we should

save our scene.

To build our game we must first open

the Build Settings window.

We can do this by selecting File - Build Settings

or by using the key combination of

shift plus command or control plus B.

This brings up the Build Settings window.

Our current build target is indicated by the Unity logo.

The blue highlight indicates our focus and

shows us on the right hand side the build

options for the currently selected platform.

We want to build a standalone application.

This is our current build target.

PC, Mac and Linux Standalone.

We do not need to change our build target.

If we did want to change our build target

we can select the desired platform from the list

and click the Switch Platforms button at the bottom of the window.

Let's now return our build target to the standalone player.

Once we have selected our new build target

we need to add the scenes we want to build

to the Build Settings window.

We can add the current scene by clicking the

Add Current button.

Or we can drag and drop any scene from our

project view in to the field at the top of

the Build Settings window.

It's worth noting that we don't need to

include every scene in our project.

We only need to include the scenes we

we want in our game.

It is also possible to perform a build

with no scenes in the build Settings window.

If we do this, Unity will simply build our game

using the current scene we have open for editing.

Now we are ready to build our game.

Let's return to the Build Settings window

and click the Build button.

This will bring up a dialogue box asking us

to choose a build location.

I like to associate my build location with

my project, so I will create a new folder

inside my project called Builds.

This folder must be placed only on the

root of our project alongside the

assets and library folders.

With the build folder selected let's name the build

and then click save.

Unity will now build the application

and save it to our Builds folder

When building for the Mac Unity builds a .app bundle,

which contains all of the relevant data and files.

When building for Windows

Unity builds a .exe file

and a data folder which contains all of the necessary resources.

To run the game, simply run the executable application.

And now we are running our game.

And, we win!

So in these assignments we have learned how to

create new game objects, how to position them in the scene,

add new components to them, write our own custom behaviours

for them using simple scripting.

We've seen how to use lights, cameras,

colliders, triggers, rigid bodies.

We can collect and count objects.

Though this is a very simple example,

it covers a large set of basic

subjects important to understanding how to use Unity.

For continued learning about Unity check the Learn site