Managed game servers, matchmaking, and DDoS mitigation that lets you focus on building your game.

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👾 Features

• Everything is accessible from an easy to use GUI, CLI, or API
• Serverless Lobbies for auto-scaling game lobbies
• Flexible matchmaker for placing players in lobbies with no wait times
• CDN for hosting assets and webpages with a custom domain or provided rivet.game subdomain
• Game Guard for DDoS mitigation and managed WebSocket SSL, TCP+TLS, and UDP
• Streamlined DevOps for teams
• Unified logging & monitoring & analytics
• No downtime deploys with easy rollbacks

🚀 Getting Started

Rivet Cloud

Rivet Cloud is the fastest way to get your game up and running. Sign up at rivet.gg and get a free game server.

Self-hosting

See the setup guide to develop & deploy Rivet yourself.

📐 Architecture

Below is a simplified architecture diagram of a Rivet cluster.

📖 Documentation Overview

Looking for documentation on building a game with Rivet?

Visit our documentation for game developers!

Getting Started

• Project Structure
• Developing on Rivet
• Debugging Rivet
• Services
• Error Handling

Philosophy

• Why open source

Architecture

• Software Bill of Materials

About

• Notable missing features

We're hiring!

We're a team of scrappy engineers willing to get our hands dirty with everything from Linux internals, niche game engines, designs that don't look like this, and god-tier developer experiences. If you prefer reading the source instead of documentation, love hacking on games in your free time, and have a healthy dose of anarchy in you, come join us!