Distributing a Sphere game - Revision history

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Made a game? Want to release it and make other people enjoy your game? There's several ways to do it!

== Packaging your game ==
=== Just release it as-is ===
This one is easy, but people who don't have Sphere would need to get Sphere in order to play your game.

* Browse to your game directory (in sphere/games/MyGameName).
* Zip/archive your game's folder.
* Release the zip on Spherical.

People who have Sphere can just launch copy the game into their games/ folder and open it with the startup game, or they can open the game.sgm straight with the engine/editor.

=== Include (the Windows version of) Sphere ===

<Instructions coming soon>

=== Release it as an SPK game package ===
An SPK is a packaged version of a Sphere game, in an alternative format that's a bit more tricky to extract the game out of. It allows you to distribute the game as a single file, though it's not used often as current Sphere has some issues dealing with SPK files.

<Instructions coming soon>

== Uploading your game ==
* If the game is small (< 128 KB), you can upload it straight on the forums.
* You can also upload your game on the [https://drive.google.com/#folders/0Bw-4UFVty4u1REhieE5WUTU0LVE Spherical Downloads Drive].

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 * Release the zip on Spherical.
-People who have Sphere can just launch copy the game into their games/ folder and open it with the startup game, or they can open the game.sgm straight with the engine/editor.
+People who have Sphere can just copy the game into their games/ folder and open it with the startup game, or they can open the game.sgm straight with the engine/editor.
-=== Include (the Windows version of) Sphere ===
+=== Include Sphere with your game ===
-<Instructions coming soon>
+Note: these are instructions for including the Windows version of Sphere. Instructions might also be slightly messy.