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Lua for Game Development — Chapter 19: Packaging, Deployment, Localization & Release Pipeline

You’ve built your game.

Now you must ship it.

Shipping a game is an engineering discipline in itself, requiring:

  • packaging
  • build automation
  • deployment to multiple platforms
  • patching & updates
  • asset pipelines
  • localization
  • DLC & mod support
  • crash reporting
  • analytics
  • CI/CD workflows

Lua games can ship to:

  • Windows
  • macOS
  • Linux
  • Web (HTML5)
  • iOS
  • Android
  • Steam Deck

This chapter shows how to build a full release pipeline, regardless of engine.

1. Build Artifacts: What Needs to Be Packaged?

You must package:

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