Zipping my game to send

Hi, I’m a little bit confused about what zipping your project does in the editor. I believe I did that in the past and it zipped up my game along with the executable file to run the game as intended. But I went to zip it up again (a few weeks later from the first time) and it just zips up the *.uproject. I’m confused about if there is a setting that is making this happen or if I’m doing this wrong. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Zip up project just makes a zip folder, which someone else with UE can unzip a use.

If you want to give a runnable version to others, you’ll need ‘package project’.