How to Build and Test your Unity Game

Brian Branch
2 min readMay 15, 2021

What we’re going to do to build and test out the game so far is create a Windows build. We can then run the game on our PC and play it a few times to test everything out.

What we need to do first is go to File > Build Settings as shown below.

File > Build Settings.

Next we can have a look at the settings. Check that the Target Platform is Windows, and you can select the Architecture. x86 should be fine unless you have a specific reason to target only 64bit computers. Then we can click on Player Settings to customize some things there.

Player Settings

Here you can change the company name, the game’s name, and set a version number for the game. You can also set things like the resolution, whether the game is Full Screen or Windowed. You can also customize an icon for the game or a splash screen if your license version allows customized splash screens. Next we click build and select the folder where we want the build saved.

This will create a build with an executable in the folder we chose and we can just double click it to start the game.

And now we can play and test our game or even share the game with others.

I hope this may have helped some of you and that you found it informative. So, until next time I wish you luck on your coding journey.

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