How to Make an .exe File of Your Unreal Engine 5 Game

all right so you've created your first game in unreal engine 5 and now you want to be able to play it outside of the editor either for testing purposes or to send to friends or maybe even to publish for the public to play so how do you do this to do this you will need to package the game but first you need to configure the settings so go to edit project settings then to the description page select the 192 by 192 image to use as the thumbnail for the game then write a short description for the game and give it a name then down in the displayed category the project displayed title specifies what to display in the game windows title bar after you have these settings to your liking go to the maps and modes page you will need to set the game default map to whichever level you want the game to start with now go to the packaging page the build configuration can be set to either development or shipping development will give you access to debugging features within the packaged game but the file size will be much larger for games that you intend to publish or distribute to others you would set this to shipping okay so now scroll down to the platforms category and click on the platform you're packaging for so i'm going to select windows at the top you can select the rendering hardware interfaces you want to target we'll just leave this targeting directx 11 and 12 which is the default but you can target others if you wish and then at the bottom you can specify images to use when you load the game and an image to use for the game icon okay so when you have these settings to your liking go back to the level editor and then click the platforms button in the toolbar hover over the platform you are targeting then click on package project if you get an error that says sdk not set up you'll need to follow the steps in this video to resolve that error if you don't get the error you can then choose the folder where you want to save the package files and click select folder so this will package the game and once it's finished you will be able to go to the folder you specified and run the game from there note that packaging takes a relatively long time though so don't expect it to complete in a few seconds or even a few minutes exactly how long it takes depends on the project and on the computer but in general it will use a lot of processing power and will take a while to complete okay so if you're eager to get started learning game development i teach a 10 hour long video course on unreal engine 5 that is designed for absolute beginners even those with no coding experience you can find a link to the course in the description below which has a promo code embedded that will give you a huge huge discount on the full course or you can click on this video here to view a one minute trailer alright so i hope you found this video helpful and hopefully i will see some of you guys in my course

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Length: 2min 57sec (177 seconds)

Published: Mon Jun 06 2022