Installers

I have just finished making installers for my game. An installer is a program that puts the files needed to run a program on a users machine. It also may create shortcuts for easy use of the program. For my installer, I used an xml-based tool called IzPack. I also used launch4j to make exes for windows.

IzPack uses an XML (eXtensive Markup Language) file to tell it where to get files, and where they belong. The shortcuts are created using an XML file as well. I found this tutorial helpful for using IzPack. For using launch4j, the main site helped.

This is a rather short post, as there isn't much to say about installers, but hopefully this will help some game devs out there!

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