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Blender Game Engine: Beginner's Guide

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Blender Game Engine: Beginner's Guide

Overview of this book

Blender Game Engine is the part of the Blender 3D editor used to create actual 3D video games. It's the ideal entry level game development environment because you don't even need to learn to program. Create a complete game using Bender's innovative logic bricks."Blender Game Engine: Beginner's Guide" is the ideal introduction to game development. Using only logic bricks, the reader will create a complete game in Blender. By the end of the book the reader will be able to use their skills to create their own 3D games.
Table of Contents (11 chapters)
10
Index

Time for action — exporting your game

It's time to export our game.

  1. Go to Menu | File | User Preferences:
    Time for action — exporting your game
  2. Choose Addons, and then select Game Engine in the left button panel, as shown in the following image. Check the box to say ok and close the panel.
    Time for action — exporting your game

    Tip

    You can click on the Save As Default button at the bottom of the screen if you don't wish to repeat the operation.

  3. Choose File | Export | Save As Game Engine Runtime to get the executable:
    Time for action — exporting your game

    Tip

    To include the music and textures, you must pack them in the .blend file before exporting. Choose File | External Data | Pack into the .blend file.

What just happened?

We want to try and make a game engine executable render, so we must enable the Game Engine Addon, and export the file as Game Engine Runtime.

Have a go hero—multiplayer game

The Internet is a library of tests to see what else you can apply to add on to Blender. Trying to get multi-player mode? You will see that with a little reinforcement, you can add this option in...