#publishing

Org/ident rules, every store-page field is launch-blocking, AI thumbnails demoted — verify as a player after publish.

Published game boots with error.vmdl placeholders; engine may rewrite prefab refs — no auto-retry; restart editor + republish.

Headless dotnet build is green while the in-editor compiler emits SB1000 — Environment/IO/Process/reflection are banned in game code.

Whitelist divergence, loose Resource Files, and silent cloud-asset failures after publish.

Standalone export hangs if PackageReferences still need sbox.game to resolve — don't accumulate cloud package deps casually.

PNG/WAV/MP3/JSON must be listed in Project Settings → Resource Files without an assets/ prefix — #1 editor-vs-publish break.

Ident is org.package — two lowercase segments; keep Org local until real; never put TODO placeholders in Org or the editor won't boot.

Preview as of 2026-07: Valve approval + Facepunch license; full .NET, lose platform services; clean PackageReferences or startup hangs.

No paid storefront — revenue is clamped player-hours from a daily pool; retention is the monetization feature.

Stats.Increment/SetValue, Leaderboards.GetFromStat, Achievements.Unlock — cheap platform polish; total achievement score capped at 1000.