Visual Novel Maker provides a configurable system to build and run your games for various platforms. If you are a beginner and just want to test your game, you don't need to understand the details about it. You can easily test anytime by just clicking the play-test button on The Toolbar or selecting the "Play" through The Menu Bar.

If you are a more advanced user you may want to modify VN Maker's default build behavior for certain platforms especially if it comes to iOS and Android deployment.

Visual Novel Maker is processing your game in three steps:

1) Exporting

In this step your game gets exported in a platform-independent format to your selected output location which is either the build-directory in your project's folder or the selected output path from the Create Game Package wizard. This step cannot be customized.

2) Building

In this step, your game is build for a certain platform. This step can be freely configured by running custom build scripts or executing external programs via command line.

3) Running

In this step you are launching your game on a specific target platform if possible. For example: If you are on Windows and making a build for Mac OS X then of course, you cannot run it on your Windows PC.