# Games > A line to a game you can play, publish and share, made for the web, a phone or a game engine. *Picture: The Games bench playing the Blotsworn demo in Robin's browser: its title over the ink swordsman with his red scarf, the serpent and a gold moon, Duel 1 of 6; the things in the game listed beside it with the Player's question, and its checks under it* Games turns a line into a game you can play, publish and share. Say what you want ("What game are we making?"), or start from a starter: Catch, Platformer, Tower defence, Racing, Puzzle, Quiz or Arcade. **Robin can do this too.** From the chat, Robin chooses where a game plays, opens each view and step, plays the sprites and the captures, records a clip, plays the game full screen, turns the phone, inspects a web game, runs the checks and makes takes. Publishing asks you every time. ## Where it plays Choose **2D** or **3D**, then where it plays: **Web**, **iPhone**, **Unity**, **Godot** or **Defold**. A web game runs in Robin's own browser beside the chat. Play it full screen, turn the phone it plays on, and inspect a web game to point at what is in it and ask. ## The steps Inside the game, the work is one line of steps, each marked done, now or next. - **Brief**: the brief as a card. **Change** it, or **Yes, start the work**. - **Plan**: the plan as a sheet, with your notes in the margin. **Apply** or **Revise**. - **Target**: the frame the game is aiming for, beside its newest frame. **Mark up** what is off. - **Live**: the game running, sized to the room the window gives it. **Restart**, **Pause**, **Inspect**, **Profile**, **Picture**, the frame rate, and **Mac** or **Phone**. Pick something in the game to **Ask about it**, **Change it**, see its **Takes** or **Remove** it. Try its values live, then **Keep** or **Put back**. - **Run**: how the game was made, as the team's graph and a numbered story. - **Ship**: the launch page: title, line, keywords, **Press kit**, **Screening** (the critic panel), **Dry run** and **Publish**. Publishing always asks you first. ## The views Every part of a game is a view away, each read from the game's own folder: - **Game**: the game itself, with its steps. - **Assets**: everything it is made of, at a glance. - **Sprites**: every picture it draws. Each sheet and run of frames plays in order at the speed you set (12 frames a second to start), looped or back and forth, a frame at a time when you want. - **Animations**: what moves, each model in its clips. - **Sound**: its music and every effect, to hear and change, by their real names. Only what the game plays is here; a set made in Sound for the same project is one line at the foot, to open in Sound. - **Source**: the game's code, in the editor the Code app uses: the files as a folder tree, the outline, what Robin wrote and its problems, with go to definition (⌘-click), hover and errors from a language server. Robin writes it; point at a file and ask. See [Code](https://getrobin.app/docs/code.md). - **Captures**: every frame and clip its checks, rounds and recordings caught, on the Mac and on a phone. Open one and it plays under the header: a clip looped, with a scrubber, its time and its sound; a round’s stills as a flipbook, **Fast**, **Normal speed** or **Slow**. Step a frame at a time, mark it up or ask about it. **Record a clip** films the game as it plays, on the Simulator or in the preview, and the clip lands here. - **Reels**: trailers and share videos cut from its real play. - **Levels**, once the game has levels: laid out by hand or by Robin, and played from there. Paint, erase, fill, draw a rectangle, place a start, an enemy, a pickup or a goal, then **Play this level**. *Picture: Captures on the Games bench for Kettle Cove Post: the clip the Simulator recorded open under the header and playing, the carrier cycling the harbour lane past the red-roofed cottage, with its scrubber at 0:02.8, Mark up, Ask Robin, and All, Mac and Phone above it* ## Checks **Run checks** plays the game again and checks everything, on your Mac, for free. Checking a web game needs Node.js on your Mac. ## Publish Publish to itch.io, Cloudflare Pages, or a folder (the dry run). It always asks first. A game's **Trailer** and **Ad** are in the More of its Live strip; **Make this into…** turns it into a trailer, an ad, a store page or a post. ## What you need - A web game: Node.js. - Publishing: the game kit's command line. - Unity: Unity Hub with an editor. - iPhone or Android: see [Apps](https://getrobin.app/docs/apps.md). ## Keys on Live | Key | What it does | | --- | --- | | R | Restart the game | | Space | Pause, and play on | | ⌃⌘F | Play full screen (Esc comes back) | | I | Inspect | | Delete | Remove what is picked | | P X \ | Keep the take, not this one, the one before | | ⌘Z ⇧⌘Z | Undo and redo on the game's files | | ⌘L | Ask | Click the game to give it the keys (arrows, WASD and the rest); Esc gives them back. ## Keys in Captures | Key | What it does | | --- | --- | | ← → | The capture before, the next | | Space | Play a clip, or a round’s frames in turn; again, pause | | , . | A frame back, a frame on | | M L | A clip’s sound, its loop | | Esc | Close the capture |