Chapter 10Package and Share Your Game

You’ve finished your game. It’s fun and just the right difficulty. At least, you think it is. Now it’s time to share it with your friends and see what they think. It’s also time to see whether they can beat your high score. Feedback from other players is the best way to get better. Your friends can tell you what works and what doesn’t, and what’s fun and what’s not so great.

You can already play the game, but it’s a folder full of files, and you can only run it because you set up a development environment with Ruby and Gosu, back in Chapter 2, Get Ready. You don’t want to make your friends set up their computers the same way—you just want to send them the game and let them play. Next, you’ll learn how ...

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