Creating a game, version and variant

Updated September 9, 2026

PlayableGO nests three things inside each other. Getting the shape right once makes everything after it obvious.

A game is your title or campaign. It holds everything else.
A version is one build of that game from one template. Pick the template here.
A variant is one set of customizations of that version — the artwork, copy and configuration you actually export.

1. Create the game

Go to Games and choose New game. A game needs only a title; you can add a logo and category later. Nothing is exported at this level — the game is a folder.

2. Add a version

Open the game and choose New version. This is where you pick the template the playable is built from, and — if more than one is available to you — which template version to pin to.

Pinning matters: a version stays on the template version you chose. When we publish an update to that template, your existing version keeps building exactly as it did. Move to the new one deliberately, by creating another version.

3. Customize a variant

Every version is created with one default variant already in it. Open Customize to edit it.

The Customization Engine has four panels beside a live preview:

Panel	What it changes
Configs	Numbers and switches the template exposes — durations, thresholds, store links
Assets	Textures, sounds, fonts and 3D models
Objects	On-screen text and its styling
Maps	Which level or layout the playable loads

Changes are staged, not live. Press Reload to apply them to the preview, and Save to keep them.

4. Add more variants

Use variants for things you want to run side by side — an A/B test of two end cards, or one build per region. Each carries its own customizations and exports separately.

Localization

Inside a variant, switch from Default to Localization to add languages. A language only stores what it overrides; everything else falls through to the default. At export time each language becomes its own folder, and the un-localized build always ships as default/.