Google Cloud Platform makes it easy to build a massively scalable game, without having to work on IT issues.
No need to maintain and troubleshoot your infrastructure.
Scale seamlessly from hundreds to millions of users.
With a variety of APIs and services, Google has the tools you need.
Learn how to design the architecture for games that use App Engine and Compute Engine to scale to serve millions of players.
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Create games on Google’s platform that are easy to manage and scale. Just focus on building your game and App Engine will handle all the operations of your app.
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Build scalable and flexible backends for your web and Android and iOS games.
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Store, access and manage your games’ media and large data files on Google’s storage infrastructure. Data is stored with high reliability and redundancy, and served directly to the client devices.
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Users increasingly demand higher resolution images and downloads of all sizes. Keep users coming back and engaged with your app by continuously offering fresh content. Google Cloud Storage offers a simple REST based interface for storing large files in the cloud and uses the same high-speed network that powers Google’s applications.
Google Cloud Platform allows you to build games for mobile platforms, including Android and iOS, and web platforms, including Chrome OS and Facebook. You can also build different types of games, from turn-based games to social games.
Use Google Cloud Endpoints to automatically expose your server logic as web APIs and generate strongly typed client libraries for iOS, Android and JavaScript for standard web apps.
Store gamestate in the App Engine Datastore or Google Cloud Storage, making it available from all the devices your users have and provide you with the ability to get deep insights from it.
Understanding what users are doing and how your game is performing is key to unlocking the value of your application. But to do this, you need more than just logging - you need powerful analytics. Google BigQuery exposes the same technology we use at Google to solve these problems for your applications, allowing you to do real time ad-hoc analysis of terabytes of data to feed to your dashboards. Or you can use MapReduce on App Engine to crunch huge datasets in parallel for non real-time analysis.
Monetize your game using Google AdSense and Google In-App Payments. Adsense allows you to display targeted ads that match your game’s look and feel. In-App payments enables you to sell virtual goods with a flat 5% fee. Distribute your game using the Chrome Web Store for web games or Google Play for mobile games.
"Our rapid growth to 5M Ruzzle players in less than six months required a highly scalable server solution. Google App Engine transformed this huge challenge into a picnic."
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"We were fortunate to be on Google App Engine. If we had used a different technology, we might not have been able to scale quickly enough."
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