Convert your MakeCode Arcade games to executables

[MeatballDev]

Can you make this into a website that converts the games into an exe

[UnsignedArduino]

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@BotWarrior

do you think it would be possible to host a website where you could put in the link and get a downloadable executable?

Building executables is computationally expensive, so the hosting would make it really expensive and complicated, especially as there are many different OS and hardware architectures to compile for.

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[UnsignedArduino]

I have not, mostly because the plan was for people to use an external game launcher like Steam:

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@Vegz78

2. Does this solution also support multiple games in one executable, as was suggested/discussed in the earlier topic for your first solution?

Currently, no. With the executables being “so small”, I imagined people wouldn’t mind creating shortcuts to the game on the desktop, or adding them to an existing launcher like Steam:

(Which launches correctly, although there isn’t any description, art besides the executable icon)

Since the kiosk mode isn’t a single Arcade game I’m not sure what you would need to do, it would proabably be easier to just make a custom kiosk mode by hand with some HTML/CSS/JS that links to games, then compile that all into an executable.

[Reflectfr]

another reason why makecode should just let you download either an exe or a png file

[UnsignedArduino]

Well, you already can download the PNG file to reopen on the MakeCode Arcade website, and as for executable files, they would also run into the same problems of needing engineering time and money to maintain this