How to share a game?

hi, I know this could be a really stupid question, but I can not find an answer anywhere. I wanted to ask, once the project is finished, can I somehow share it with friends? and if so, do they have to have unreal engine installed on their pc?

  1. yes you can share the project just give them a copy of your whole projectname folder
  2. The also need unreal engine installed
  3. if you want to share the game with them you will have to finish your game and build the executable file(not very percice sorry)

thank you so much <3

yes you can share with friends, and no they dont need unreal engine installed depending on how you package. basically you will need to decide the platform you are targeting (pc, mac, ios, etc) then package for that particular platform. to learn how to package a game google some tutorials and check out the doc linked below. you will need visual studio and a bunch associated extensions / SDKs, if your using 4.19 then you will need the latest version. once you have visual studio setup you will need to go into you project and adjust the settings in the project settings; packaging section. then go to file package project and select the platform. i realize this is probably clear as mud but just do some googling and read the docs and youll figure it out.

Packaging Docs