Chapter 9. Publishing and Making Money from Your Games

Now that we have completed our game, it would be a great idea to share it with the rest of the world, otherwise it is going to languish unloved on our computer's hard drive!

Publishing any game that we have made with Stencyl is a very straightforward process but, as is so often true when it comes to game development, we have many alternatives available to us. In this chapter, we'll examine some of the options available to us when publishing games that we have created for the Flash platform, which will enable us to upload our game to the Internet and share it with our friends, family, and anyone else who chooses to play it.

In addition to making our game available on the Internet, we'll also be taking a look at some of the different choices that are available to us if we would like to make some money from our game—many developers earn a reasonable living from publishing their games, so it's certainly something that we should consider. However...