After 48 hours of intense work, I generated the PC version of my horror game The Furniture is Alive in Unity. I double clicked on the generated .exe file, played through the game once to see that it was working fine, then uploaded the exe to a server and posted the link on Ludum Dare and went to sleep.

What did I do wrong? Well, turns out that the .exe file actually isn’t self-contained! When I opened it up on my PC to test, there was actually another data folder that it was accessing, but which I wasn’t aware of. When I distributed only the exe file, it would not work for anyone else because of the missing folder.

Don’t forget to include your data folder when uploading your Unity game! 

I have updated my submission so that the data folder is now included. Hopefully it now works, please give it another try!