> ## Documentation Index
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> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.
# Publish your game from Summer Studio
> Publish a game on Summer Games from Studio: name it and pick its platforms, fill the desktop and mobile store pages, upload a web export for browser play or downloads for Mac, Windows and Linux, then submit for review and go live.
Publishing on Summer Games is free. You make a store page in Studio, upload your build and submit it. Summer staff review it, and then your game goes live on [summer.games](https://summer.games).
Start at [summerengine.com/studio/upload](https://summerengine.com/studio/upload), or click **Publish a game** in Grow. You can fill in the first step before you sign in; Studio keeps your draft and asks you to sign in when you save.
Want your AI agent to do every step? It fills the store page, makes the art, uploads the build and submits, then stops at one **Approve publishing** click for you. See [Create and publish your game](/publishing/summer-games).
## The steps
Studio walks you through one step at a time. You can go back to any step.
Give your game a **title** (up to 60 characters) and choose its **targets**: Web, macOS, Windows, Linux, iPhone and Android. Targets decide which store pages you fill next:
* **Web, macOS, Windows or Linux** open the **Desktop store**: summer.games and the Summer Games desktop app.
* **iPhone or Android** open the **Mobile store**: the Summer Games apps for iPhone and Android.
You can add a **build file** here too, or later. If a jam is open, you can enter it here: see [Summer Games Jam](/grow/game-jam). Click **Save and continue**. This makes a private draft of your store page. It does not submit anything.
The text and art for summer.games and the desktop app, with a live preview next to the form: a tagline (up to 80 characters), a description (120-300 characters), 3-8 tags, key art, 4-8 screenshots and an icon. A trailer and capsule art are optional. See [Store page text](/publishing/store-text) and [Store art](/publishing/store-art).
The same for the phone apps, with a phone preview: a shorter description (120-170 characters), key art, 3-8 screenshots and an icon. **Same as desktop** copies your desktop text once; **Use desktop icon** reuses the icon.
Choose free or paid. A paid game needs a price and a connected Stripe account; free games work without one. See [Earnings & payouts](/grow/earnings).
The **Before launch** checklist shows what is still needed to go live and what makes the page shine. Each row links to its fix. When nothing required is left, click **Submit for review**.
Where your game is on its way to players: in review, approved, or live.
The full dashboard of a game (**Full dashboard** on its page, in **Your games**) has every field in tabs: **Store page**, **Audience** (platforms, content classification, languages, system requirements, release date), **Builds** and **Sales**.
## Your build: browser play or downloads
| Players get | Upload | Rules |
| - | - | - |
| **Play in the browser** on summer.games | A **web export**, zipped, under **Play in the browser** on the game's page | `index.html` at the root of the zip, not in a folder. Up to 500 MB, 2,000 files and 200 MB per file. |
| **A download** for Mac, Windows or Linux | One file per platform | Up to 40 GB in Studio. |
| **The Summer Games apps** on iPhone and Android | A Summer export from the editor | Checked by Summer for each platform. See [Export your game](/publishing/export). |
* A **Summer export** is checked in Studio and made ready for each platform. It asks for a version, such as `v1.0.0`.
* **Any other build** (`.zip`, `.exe`, `.dmg`, `.apk` or `.ipa`) stays private, and Summer staff check it during review.
* Without a web export, players download your game instead of playing it in the browser.
* Games that use C# (.NET) need a download per platform; they do not run in the browser or the Summer Games apps.
Large uploads resume if they stop. Keep the tab open until the upload finishes.
## Review and going live
| Status | What it means |
| - | - |
| **Draft** | Not submitted. Saving never submits. |
| **In review** | Summer staff are reviewing your page and build. You can edit again once the review is done. |
| **Changes requested** / **Not approved** | The review found something to change. Change it and submit again. |
| **Approved** | Click **Go live** to put the page on Summer Games. |
| **Live** | Your page is on summer.games. |
A live store page and a released version are two things:
* A **web export** and **downloads** go to players as soon as the page is live.
* A **Summer export** goes out when you pick it under **Versions** and click **Promote to production**. Uploading a new version never replaces the live one by itself.
Editing a live page starts a new draft, which goes through review before players see it.
**Share a preview.** On the store page, **Share preview** makes a private link that expires in 1 hour, 1 day or 7 days. Anyone with the link sees your saved page before it is on Summer Games.
## With your agent
In Studio, ask the assistant "publish my game". It opens **Publish a game**, fills the title and targets, and walks the store page with you. It never presses **Submit for review** unless you ask for exactly that. See [Use the agent](/grow/use-the-agent).
From Claude, Codex or ChatGPT, the Summer Engine MCP does every step and gives you an approval link. See [Approve publishing](/publishing/owner-approval).
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