Chapter 8. Polishing and Prepping Your Game for Deployment

You now have the knowledge and the code base to create any game and make it run smoothly. In the previous chapter, Chapter 7, Expanding Your Gameplay with In-App Purchases, you learned how to add in-app purchasing to your projects, allowing your players to explore additional content in your games and unlock advanced features.

In this chapter, we'll shift our focus from project fundamentals to several different polishing techniques that you can use to make your game stand out. In addition to being clean and polished, your game also has to meet the OUYA content guidelines before it can be submitted to the marketplace. We'll review the steps to create an acceptable submission in this chapter as well.

Here's a summary of what we'll cover:

• Meeting the OUYA content guidelines

• Polishing your aesthetic and mechanics

• Packaging your project for submission

Above all, we want to ensure all of the final changes we make adhere to the content guidelines...