[Solved] How do you extract a game to an .exe?

[Lockvia]

Hi,

I'm currently writing the first and second chapter of my game and planning to make them into a demo before finishing off the full version. I still have a long way to go before I make the demo version. But I just want to ask beforehand just in case I run into some trouble later. I'm still quite new to this, so this probably sounds like a silly question. But how do you make the game into an .exe file? Or into a file without allowing the players see the raw images of the game?

I searched around and found that you're suppose to go to "Tool" > "Archive Files". But in the latest version, which is Ren'Py 6.17.0.282, I can't seem to find it anywhere on Ren'Py Launcher. Any help would be awesome!

[Asceai]

'Build Distributions' to make the game into an .exe.

To make the images inaccessible, you'll have to modify the build settings in options.rpy (Build Distributions should add this for you if it isn't already in your options.rpy, so you might want to click that first even if you aren't ready to build a release).

There's two commented-out lines in the default build settings,
# build.classify('game/**.png', 'archive')
# build.classify('game/**.jpg', 'archive')

If you uncomment those, all .png and .jpg images will be put into an archive.rpa where it will be harder (not impossible, just not immediately trivial) to access the files from. You can classify other extensions to archive in the same way.

[Lockvia]

I will do this when I finish the first two chapters. Thank you so much for your answer!