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Hey there.

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In this lecture, we're going to be taking a look at how to publish our game and change some of the

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settings for our game.

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When we go and we hit the file button, we usually save our game to Roblox.

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This means any changes you have made within your game are saved, and you'll be able to come back to

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them later, but your changes have not yet been made.

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Live to your game.

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In order to make the changes in your game, go live to other players, we have to press the Publish

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to Roblox button instead.

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Once we publish the game, any new servers that are created will contain your new changes.

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However, any existing servers will not have these new changes.

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If you need to push an update for all of these servers in your game, then you can go ahead and open

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up the game settings.

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Go down to the other tab, and here you're able to shut down all of the current running servers for

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your game.

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This will force all of the players to rejoin your game with the new updates that you've pushed.

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This shutdown feature is also why it's very important to make sure that you are saving player data through

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the bind to close function in your game, to avoid data loss when you are forcing server shutdowns.

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Otherwise, once we have published the game, we can head to the Roblox Creator dashboard to access

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more settings.

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In the Roblox dashboard, I'm going to open up my game.

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And here we have access to a plethora of different analytics and settings for the game.

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For example, we can have some basic settings for the game, such as the privacy, whether it is a public

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game or a private game.

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If you set it to public, then players will be able to join your game.

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You can go ahead and set the name for it and give it a description.

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You can also directly go to the place in your game under the places section, and if you select it,

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this is how you can change the icon for your game as well as the thumbnail.

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Of course, you have some additional access settings, such as how the servers are optimized and what's

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the maximum amount of players you can have per server.

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There's a version history section here, which will show you all the times you have to save your game

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and which ones are published versions, and you're able to restore to a previous version in case something

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bad happened.

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And then we also have a couple other permission settings for this place, but we can go ahead and head

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back.

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There's some more permission settings here.

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This is specifically for asset IDs like sounds.

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And then we have an analytics section to show you different statistics for retention, engagement,

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acquisition, your audience.

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All of these are blank because nobody's played my game because I haven't published it.

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But once your game gets traction, these graphs will start filling out with data that you can go ahead

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and take a look at.

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This is more advanced stuff, and it's particularly for people who are really trying to make a business

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out of their game.

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But that's what all of these analytics sections are for.

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Of course, we also have our monetization section where you can add Game Passes developer products.

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There's a new thing called subscriptions, but you need to be ID verified or phone verified.

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And there's some other criteria.

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Personally, I don't care about subscriptions.

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I think the subscription update was very stupid, so I'm not even going to mess with subscriptions.

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There's also a section where it talks about your engagement payouts, and you basically get paid in

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Robux for when any time a premium player plays in your game for a longer period of time.

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So sometimes you may want to improve the engagement of premium players by offering specific benefits

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to players that have Roblox Premium.

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Another super important section is this monitoring section, which will show some graphs and information

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for the performance in your game.

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And one of the most important ones is going to be your error report section.

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So this allows you to keep track of any of the errors that are occurring in your game.

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So if there's a client sided error or a server sided error, they are going to be tracked and they will

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pop up in the section when there are players playing in your game encountering errors.

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So this is very important to keep a look at when people start playing your game.

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Check to see if there's any errors popping up in here that you didn't catch, and fix them right away.

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There's another area here for memory stores, but we're not going to go into memory stores for now.

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We also have a section for your audience.

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There's different access settings, such as what kind of devices, whether or not you would like your

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game to require Robux to play.

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You can go ahead and allow private servers.

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There's some other communication settings.

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This is specifically for 17 plus games.

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So if you want to allow strong language in your game, it's going to force your game to be a 17 plus

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experience.

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Now, something very important here that you need to fill out is called the questionnaire.

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And it says click Start to answer a few questions about the content.

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In your experience, your answers will generate a set of guidelines for this experience, including

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an age recommendation and a regional compliance assessment.

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So this questionnaire is very important to fill out.

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Make sure you fill it out and answer the questions so you are able to be placed into the Roblox algorithm.

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So make sure you hit start and answer the questions about your game.

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Fill it out.

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Very important.

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We also have another area specifically for localization and translating.

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I'm not going to get too much into this.

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And then we have another section down here for engagement.

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This is for like adding communities to your games.

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You can add social links to your game.

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And then there's also a section here where you can send out a notification of an update.

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So if there's any players that are following your game and let's say you had a very big update, you

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wanted to push, well, when you push out the update, then you can come to here, type out what you

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updated, send that notification out to any players that are following your game.

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There's another section here for notifications.

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This is specifically for creating customized notifications for player invites.

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I'm not going to get too much into this, but of course you can go ahead and press the learn more if

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you want to learn more about customized player invites.

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But I'm not going to get too much into that.

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And then of course we have this section for badges.

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So once you have gotten your game published and you've added an icon, a thumbnail, you've added a

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description, then the time comes to, well, how do I get players in my game?

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And that's what we're going to be discussing in the next lecture.

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So I'll see you there.