Uploading Ren'Py Game to Itch.io

[Mello-Knight]

Hi! So I'm getting pretty close to releasing a free demo of the game I've been working on for Itch.io. I've made the page, but I'm not quite sure which files to upload. I looked up tutorials, but everyone seems to be talking about different sorts of files than from what Ren'Py has.

Do I upload the entire "game" folder? Am I supposed to separate the .rpy files from the .rpyc files so the code can't be accessed? Any feedback would be appreciated since it's my first time doing this. I was planning to experiment then realized I might as well reach out for help on here too.

[Per K Grok]

Hi! So I'm getting pretty close to releasing a free demo of the game I've been working on for Itch.io. I've made the page, but I'm not quite sure which files to upload. I looked up tutorials, but everyone seems to be talking about different sorts of files than from what Ren'Py has.

Do I upload the entire "game" folder? Am I supposed to separate the .rpy files from the .rpyc files so the code can't be accessed? Any feedback would be appreciated since it's my first time doing this. I was planning to experiment then realized I might as well reach out for help on here too.

You should not upload any files directly from your game project.

When you are releasing your game you first build one or more distributions depending on which platform/platforms (win, linux, mac) you are making a release for.

You build the distribution package(s) from the launcher. You get one (1) archive-file for each distribution you make and that(those) archive(s) is what you upload to Itch.io or whatever distributor you use. Each archive contains a number of different files. I believe they all are needed.

https://www.renpy.org/doc/html/quicksta ... -your-game

[Mello-Knight]

OMG thank you so much, this looks like exactly what I need! I'll check it out!

[Mello-Knight]

That was really helpful and I managed to make successful distributions and upload a test demo to itch.io. All seems well on the Mac, however on the PC it looks like all of my game files can be opened up and viewed (scripts, images, audio, etc.). I'm primarily a Mac user so I'm not quite sure what to do about that. Is there a way around this?

Never mind! Thanks to past conversations on this lovely site, I figured it out.

[phongtinh]

thank you so much, this looks like exactly what I need! I'll check it out! Thanks !