Configure launcher settings

The launcher settings cover the general logic and interface of the launcher, and are grouped as follows:

• General info
• User login
• Tabs
• UI customization

To configure the launcher settings:

1. Open your project in Publisher Account.
2. Click Launcher in the side menu.
3. Find the launcher on the dashboard, and click Edit launcher.
4. Go to the Settings section.
5. Change the settings.
6. Click Save changes.

General info

The following settings tabs are available:

• Name & OS
• Languages
• Analytics
• Installation

Name & OS

The Name & OS section allows you to configure the following:

• Launcher name — the launcher name in Publisher Account.
  
• Operating systems — the operating system(s) that the launcher supports.
  It is not possible to disable support for operating systems that are already supported (the ones that have the On status). If you enable additional operating systems, generate a launcher build to get the links to launchers for them.

Languages

In the Languages section, you can select the languages that the launcher interface supports.
English is the default language and cannot be removed.
Selected languages that will be available when completing the Game information and Content sections.

Analytics

In the Analytics section, you can specify the Google Analytics Tracking ID value to enable sending events generated by the launcher to Google Analytics.
This is an additional option for collecting statistics because all event statistics are always available on the Analytics tab of the project in Publisher Account.

User login

The User login section allows you to specify a Login project that the launcher will use in its Login widget. This widget provides one-click authentication while keeping user data safe and under your ownership.

1. Select the Login project.
2. Enable or disable OAuth 2.0 for the selected Login project. If enabled, users do not need to log in every 24 hours.
3. If OAuth 2.0 is enabled, select an OAuth 2.0 client that the Login project will use. If the Login project does not have any clients, a new client is created in the Login project.
4. Click Save changes.

UI customization

UI customization settings in the launcher project are divided into two groups:

• common settings for all games
• game-specific settings for customizing the appearance of game-related pages and their elements

Common customization

To configure the UI customization settings for all games:

1. Open your project in Publisher Account.
2. Click Launcher in the side menu.
3. Find the launcher on the dashboard, and click Edit launcher.
4. Go to the Settings > UI customization section.
5. Make changes to:
   • Icons
   • Launcher theme
   • Initialization screen
6. Click Save changes.

Icons

On the Icons tab you can:

• Upload your Company logo to be displayed at the top of the left menu.
• Upload App icons to be used as desktop shortcuts.

Launcher theme

On the Launcher theme tab, you can edit your launcher theme as follows:

1. Select a theme and copy its JSON.
2. Go to the launcher customization guide.
3. Following the guide:
   1. Do preparation steps.
   2. Prepare a modified JSON object with your settings.
   3. Apply the changes to your launcher.

Initialization screen

On the Initialization screen tab, you can upload a background image that will be displayed as the background during initialization after users run the launcher.

Game-specific customization

To configure the game-specific UI customization settings:

1. Open your project in Publisher Account.
2. Click Launcher in the side menu.
3. Find the launcher on the dashboard, and click Edit launcher.
4. Scroll down to the Games section.
5. Click Set up to the right of your game.
6. Go to the Game page customization and configure the following:
   • Background image
   • Game logos
7. Click Save changes.

Installation

In the Installation section you can set the default launcher installation path. If necessary, users will be able to change it during the launcher installation. To set the default installation path:

1. Specify the Default installation path for Windows using environment variables. This allows the operating system to dynamically determine the directory for installation:
   • %PROGRAMFILES% — the path to the directory with installed applications for all users of Windows, for example C:\Program Files.
   • %SYSTEMDRIVE% — the name of the system drive, for example C:.
   • %USERPROFILE% — the path to the user’s home directory for a particular Windows user, for example C:\Users\username.
   • %LOCALAPPDATA% — default location for application-specific data storage for a particular Windows user, for example C:\Users\username\AppData\Local.

2. Click Save changes.

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Last updated: April 19, 2024