Prepare your Windows game for publishing

Obtain a game rating certificate

To publish your game in the Windows Store, you may want to first provide a rating that describes the content of the game to buyers. Here we walk you through the options for obtaining a proper game ratings for your game.

Create a GDF file

If you want to submit a game to the Windows Store, you must provide metadata that defines the ratings for your game as part of the game package. Here, we walk you through creating a simple resource DLL to contain the ratings XML data.