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Developing an in-game chat system in-house involves a range of costs that encompass various aspects of the development process. Let’s take a look at the general components that contribute to the cost of developing an in-game chat.

1. Dedicated Development Team

2. Infrastructure Costs

3. Design and User Interface

4. Backend and Frontend Development

5. Security and Moderation Features

6. Testing and Quality Assurance

7. Additional Features and Integrations

Developing an in-game chat system in-house involves a substantial investment that covers a wide range of components.

✨ We know how time-consuming and costly it is to build an in-game chat from scratch. So we have the Nbase Game SDK, which has the in-game chat API pre-built for game developers to quickly embed with a few lines of code.

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🕹 Must-have Feature of Games: Leaderboard

When it comes to game development, creating engaging features is crucial for capturing and retaining players' interest. One such feature is a leaderboard, which allows players to compare their achievements and compete with others.

📝 Outline for building a leaderboard

1. Understand the purpose of a leaderboard
2. Design database for leaderboard data
3. Handle ties and all the other special scenarios/conditions
4. Capture players’ data real-time
5. Calculate new scores and rankings
6. Display the leaderboard in the game interface
7. Update and refresh the leaderboard
8. Ensure security and prevent cheating

🧑‍💻 Building a leaderboard feature in a game requires careful consideration of various technical aspects. From database design to user authentication and score calculations, every step plays a vital role in creating a compelling and engaging leaderboard.

🚀 Nbase Game SDK has a leaderboard feature pre-built for game developers to embed in their games.

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💳In-App Purchase: Easiest Way to Integrate and Manage

Integrating an in-app purchase feature into your application can help you generate revenue, offer values to users, and foster the growth of your businesses.

🧑‍💻From integration to management, Nbase made everything about in-app purchase convenient, to help developers save time and simplify their workflows.

💸Nbase Core and Nbase Game SDK make monetization easy

1️⃣Quickly and easily integrate Google Play Store, Apple App Store, One Store, Huawei Store, and Galaxy Store to your applications
2️⃣Payment details: payment ID, store, date, user ID, name of purchased item, server ID, currency, amount, transaction status
3️⃣Payment verification and automatic prevention for fraudulent payments
4️⃣Two-click to reverse fraudulent or suspicious payments
5️⃣View cancelled payment and details
6️⃣Create in-app items and list on stores
7️⃣Test in-app payments and item send-outs using WebHook
8️⃣View real-time data and statistics on revenue, ARPU, revenue per store, etc.

🖥Manage and operate in-app purchases on the dashboard

All of the operation and settings mentioned above can easily be controlled on the dashboard for quick and easy management.

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🔎How does an SDK empower application developers?

1️⃣Simplified development: SDKs offer a set of ready-to-use functions, modules, and components, saving developers from reinventing the wheel. This accelerates development, reduces coding complexity, and enables developers to focus more on the core features and the infrastructure of the application.

2️⃣Consistency and standardization: SDKs promote consistency and standardization in application development cycle. They often follow best practices and programming guidelines, ensuring that developers adhere to a common set of rules. This consistency leads to more organized, maintainable code, making it easier for multiple developers to collaborate on a project.

3️⃣Enhanced functionality: SDKs provide access to additional features and capabilities that may not be readily available through native development tools. They often offer integration with third-party services or APIs, allowing developers to extend their application's capabilities and integrate with a wide range of external services.

4️⃣Cross-platform development: Many SDKs are designed to support cross-platform development, enabling developers to create applications that can run on multiple operating systems or platforms without redundant works.

5️⃣Developer’s documentation: SDKs typically come with detailed documentation, sample code, and tutorials to help developers understand and utilize their features quickly.

6️⃣Improved reliability and performance: Using an SDK reduces the likelihood of errors or vulnerabilities since the underlying code has undergone extensive testing and quality assurance processes.

💻Overall, using an SDK provides developers with a robust toolkit, accelerates development, reduces costs, and enhances the functionality and quality of applications.
💡It allows developers to focus on building unique features and delivering value to their users, rather than getting bogged down with low-level implementation details.

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Poorly developed game server is a nightmare. Case studies and check-list.

A reliable, fast game server is the most crucial part of any game.

📝Here is a list of some cases, which we all should not see happening on any game server.

1️⃣Overloaded CPU due to incorrect server logic - The RPG game had the data related to quests saved on memories, and the logic was constructed to determine the status of each quest every time a user made a progress on it. To simply put, X number of users doing Y times of actions during quests caused a total of X*Y*number of quests, giving a ridiculous amount of calculation and level of stress on the server’s CPU.

→ The server was not usable. It had to be re-designed and re-developed from the scratch.

2️⃣Overloaded MSSQL Replication - This game’s main DB had a system error due to the RDB being overloaded.

→ Loads on RDB were distributed to Redis and MongoDB to prevent a further overload.

3️⃣Server shut down due to in-house Queue pool - The company developed its own Queue system, but it did not go through a strict QA, causing some issues on the server occasionally.

→ Implemented Kafka to replace the faulty in-house Queue pool

4️⃣Server shut down due to the overloaded CPU of the API web server - Special events and login rewards led to a sharp increase of in-game requests from players, overloading the CPU that handled such amount of requests simultaneously.

→ Made the API server distribute to others and implemented the Queue system for sequential handling of request.

5️⃣Server shut down due to the lack of reconnection option - This game server did not have the reconnection option set up properly, so the server was immediately shut down when there was 1~3 seconds of disconnection due to rebooted MongoDB, Redis, and MSSQL.

→ Set up the reconnection option to resolve the issue.


☑️ Check-list for a reliable, efficient game server 🚀

1️⃣Reliability - The foundation of the server must be carefully designed and developed. There should not be any memory leak, or any minor issue should not cause after-effects on the game’s server.

2️⃣Network - Prepare for global service from the beginning, as Socket server’s response is not fast enough for global service.

3️⃣Database - Utilize Redis transaction lock, or lower the usage limit of NoSQL from 100% to 30% while distributing the remaining to the scalable NoSQL and Redis.

4️⃣Security - Encrypt and compress protocols to improve network speed and enhance security.

5️⃣Log - Should be retrievable real-time; may utilize a collector program, such as Fluentd, to collect, send, and save logs.

6️⃣Services other than RDB must be clustered.

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Given the complexity and structural system requirements, game development can really take years to finish. However, with the software development kit (SDK) from Nbase, developers and engineers can tremendously shorten and simplify the development cycle of their games.

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