Chapter 12. Deploying your game to players’ devices
This chapter covers
- Building an application package for various platforms
- Assigning build settings, such as the app icon or name
- Interacting with the web page for web games
- Developing plug-ins for apps on mobile platforms
Throughout the book you’ve learned how to program various games within Unity, but the crucial last step has been missing: deploying those games to players. Until a game is playable outside the Unity editor, it’s of little interest to anyone other than the developer. Unity shines at this last step, with the ability to build applications for a huge variety of gaming platforms. This final chapter will go over how to build games for these various platforms.
When I speak of building for a platform, I’m referring to generating an application package that will run on that platform. On every platform (Windows, iOS, and so on) the exact form of a built application differs, but once the executable has been generated, that app package can be played without Unity and can be distributed to players. A single Unity project can be deployed to any platform without needing to be redone for each.