metagame

Extensible online game backend. Moderately modern with ES6. Highly WIP.

Short version

metagame will take care of your...

• user profiles and inventories
• in-game shop
• matchmaking
• custom platform integration
• annoying in-house PHP 'backend' from three projects ago

It uses websockets and JSON, and so should be easily usable from most languages. It also includes SSL support if you don't feel like setting up SSL termination.

Clients

• Unity

Documentation

Protocol

• Requests and responses

Stock services

• Using the authentication service
• Using the state service

Extension

• Creating a custom service
• Creating a custom platform

Planned features

See the issue tracker.

Installation

Linux build status

Windows build status

Officially, the following Node versions are tested on Linux and Windows:

• 5.x (0-4)

Unofficially, it's primarily developed on OSX, but CI doesn't cover that.

Install from npm

npm install metagame --save

const MetagameServer = require('metagame')
const config = require('config')
const co = require('co')

const server = new MetagameServer(config)
co(function*()
{
	yield server.init()
}).catch(err => console.error(err.stack))

Install from source

git clone https://github.com/returnString/metagame
cd metagame
npm install
npm test
node metagame /path/to/my/config

Dependencies

• mongodb
• redis (not yet used in stock services)