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Nakama Reviews

Nakama is an open-source distributed social and realtime server for games and apps.

Social recommendations and mentions

We have tracked the following product recommendations or mentions on Reddit and HackerNews. They can help you see what people think about Nakama and what they use it for.
  • I discover that MMORPG are really hard to make
    I read using nakama server for this is convinient. Https://heroiclabs.com/. - Source: Reddit / about 2 months ago
  • Recommendations for Tech for 1v1 RTS Indie Game
    Does anyone have recommendations on what to use? I've done a bit of research and found https://heroiclabs.com/. It's a bit unclear to me if it actually supports server side state because it talks about 'hosts' a bit, but I think it does...and it seems like you can host it yourself to avoid the $600 a MONTH! pricetag. But any other recommendations? Has anyone used heroic before? - Source: Reddit / about 2 months ago
  • Is it a bad idea to run everything on a server
    You might be interested in Nakama server from https://heroiclabs.com/. - Source: Reddit / about 2 months ago
  • A Self Hosted and Open Source Alternative to Google’s Firebase
    Looks great! I see that you even have a Godot plugin. Could you tell me a bit how AppWrite would compare to something more gaming-related like Nakama? - Source: Reddit / 12 months ago
  • Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2021)
    Heroic Labs (S15) | Client Engineer (Unity, Unreal, Godot, Defold, JS and more) | Full Time | Remote | https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/heroic-labs/jobs/ZR7VAtP-client-engineer Building games and infrastructure that scale to millions of connected players is extremely difficult. That's why we started Heroic Labs 7 years ago, to give game developers scalable tools, services and infrastructure to focus on... - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago
  • Which one of these plans should i take to make my game multiplayer?
    Check out Heroic Labs' Nakama, they have pretty good documentation, videos and demos to get you going. https://heroiclabs.com/. - Source: Reddit / over 1 year ago
  • Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2021)
    Heroic Labs | Server, Sales and Enterprise Engineers | Full Time | Remote | https://angel.co/company/heroiclabs/jobs Building games and infrastructure that scale to millions of connected players is extremely difficult. That's why we started Heroic Labs 7 years ago, to give game developers scalable tools, services and infrastructure to focus on building innovative games. Nakama is now the leading social and... - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago
  • Me and my friends working on 2d multiplayer deathmatch game.
    Yes, it is multiplayer, We used Godot high-level multiplayer, and for hosting and scaling we use k8s and agones. You can deploy it at any cloud provider. also, take a look at nakama. - Source: Reddit / almost 2 years ago
  • Middleware servers and protocols
    I'm not sure if it's what you're looking for, but the most well rounded solution to what you're describing could be Heroic Labs' Nakama. - Source: Reddit / almost 2 years ago
  • Fish Game – A multiplayer 2D brawler, playable online
    The game is fully open source, produced as a showcase game for Heroic Labs, the makers of Nakama. It will be continually developed for the purpose of demonstrating  Nakama (and Macroquad) in a live production environment. - Source: Reddit / almost 2 years ago
  • My first plugin: nakama_flutter
    Nakama is an open-source server designed to power modern games and apps. Features include user accounts, chat, social, matchmaker, realtime multiplayer, and much more. - Source: Reddit / almost 2 years ago

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