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<h1>Distributing your game</h1>
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With the information in the preceding chapters you can create your games.
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When your game is finished you obviously want other people to play it. You can of course
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give them the .gmk file that you created and let them use <i>Game Maker</i> to play it
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but this is normally not what you want. First of all, you don't want others to be able
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to change the game, and secondly you also want people to play the game even if they do not have
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<i>Game Maker</i>. So you would like to create a stand-alone executable of your game.
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Creating stand-alone executables is very easy in <i>Game Maker</i>. In the <b>File</b> menu
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you select the item <b>Create Executable</b>.
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You will be asked for the name of the executable that should contain the game.
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Indicate a name, press <b>OK</b> and you have your stand-alone game that
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you can give to anyone you like. You can change the icon for the
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stand-alone game in the <b>Global Game Settings</b>. See <A HREF="300_index.html">Part 3</A>
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for details.
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Once you have created a stand-alone executable in the way described above you can give this
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file to other people or place it on your website to download.
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You are free to distribute the games you create with <i>Game Maker</i>
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in any way you like. You can even sell them. This of course assumes that the sprites,
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images, and sounds you use can be distributed or sold as well.
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See the enclosed license agreement for more information.
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It is normally useful to zip your executable, together with some readme information.
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In Windows XP and later this can be done directly through the right mouse button menu, and there
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are many free zip utilities available on the web. Alternatively you can create an
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installer for your game. Again, a large number of free installation creation programs
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are available on the web.
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If you want your game to be played by many more people we recommend you to upload it to the
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<A HREF="http://www.yoyogames.com/">YoYo Games website</A> and press on the Share button at the top.
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distributing games
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run-only version
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stand-alone version
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executable
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create stand-alone game
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zip files
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game icon
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selling games
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