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Learning Construct 2

By : Aryadi Subagio
Book Image

Learning Construct 2

By: Aryadi Subagio

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Learning Construct 2
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Publishing to desktop


The second platform that Construct 2 can export your game to is the desktop. In publishing to the desktop, Construct 2 has a very straightforward way of exporting. The easiest way is exporting using the node-webkit; node-webkit is just like a Chrome web browser, but it is designed as standalone software. Being a standalone version, it doesn't have an address bar, a back button, and tabs.

Exporting using node-webkit

An advantage of exporting using node-webkit is that your final game file can be played on all the major desktop operating systems, such as Windows, Mac OS, and Linux. You only need to perform one export process for all three platforms as follows:

  1. Publishing using node-webkit is also easy; as usual click, on the File menu and then on Export project. Scroll down to the bottom, select node-webkit, and click on Next.

    The export options that you will see next are just the same as when you export to the Web. After deciding where to put the exported files, just click...