How do you compile your games into .EXE files

[mitchellman]

  I can't figure it out!!!! Dangit!!
I looked in the tutorial like 10 times and i can't find it any where

[Chicky]

ctrl+t?

[InCreator]

Game > Test Game

AGS folder > Game project folder > Folder named "Compiled"

Everything in "Compiled" is your game. To publish, you need everything from this folder.

[Gilbert]

Actually a better answer is:
Game --> Save Game
Or just press Ctrl-S

It just happens that when using the test game function, the game has to be saved first.

[Rui 'Trovatore' Pires]

Actually a better answer would be RTFM.

Distributing your game
When you choose the "Save game" option in the Editor, as well as creating data files which it needs for itsself, the program will create an executable file with the name of your game, in the "Compiled" sub-directory of your game's folder. This single file contains all of the program code and data for your game, and is the file you should distribute.

[Anarcho]

I actually always found that bit in the manual a little ambiguous.  It seems to suggest that the executable file itself is the only thing you need to distribute, but that's not the case.  You need EVERYTHING in the compiled folder...maybe "file" should be "folder" in that last sentence.

[Rui 'Trovatore' Pires]

You don't NEED it, unless you want to distribute winsetup - which is just the equivalent of a BAT file anyway - or unless you split the game's resources, which is not the "default" situation. So, "contains all of the program code and data for your game" is actually correct, assuming the user leaves default stuff unaltered (a necessary assumption for any documentation, as long as the files' necessity is expressed elsewhere - which it is). WinSetup, acsetup.cfg, videos, none of those are program code or data.

Furthermore, that's extra discussion. That quote is not ambiguous for the purposes of this conversation, namely, "how to compile an exe".