Awesome GameLift

A curated list of awesome packages, articles, and other cool resources from the GameLift community. GameLift provides solutions for hosting session-based multiplayer game servers in the cloud, including a fully managed service for deploying, operating, and scaling game servers, based on AWS global computing infrastructure.

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General resources

• Official site
• SDKs (release notes)
  • The Amazon GameLift Plugin for Unity
• Documentation
• AWS SDK for .NET Developer Guide
• Twitter accounts: @AmazonGameLift - @AWSGameTech
• YouTube channels: AWS Online Tech Talks - AWS Game Tech
• Blog
• re:Post Q&A (~~old forum~~)
• GitHub topic
• Stack Overflow tag [amazon-gamelift]
• Other resources

Solutions

GameLift Realtime Servers (NodeJS)

• node-gameloop - A game loop for NodeJS applications, uses a combination of setTimeout and setImmediate to achieve accurate update ticks with minimal CPU usage.
• Unofficial Typescript definitions for GameLift realtime server API - Make Realtime interface work with Typescript.

Integrations

• Defold extension-gamelift - GameLift Amazon GameLift extension for the Defold game engine. Run Defold on the server with GameLift SDK support.
• GomeLift - Unofficial GameLift Server SDK in Go.
• GameLift Server SDK RS - Unofficial GameLift Server SDK in Rust

Devops

• amazon-gamelift-remote-plus - A tool creates remote connections to access fleet instances using Secure Shell (SSH) for fleets running Linux, and Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) for fleets running Windows.
• fleetiq-adapter-for-agones - Allows you to run containerized game servers on Spot instances while decreasing the likelihood of Spot interruptions by using Agones and Gamelift FleetIQ.

Resources

Articles

Official articles

• Creating a Battle Royale Game Using Unity and Amazon GameLift (Source Repo)

Other articles

Samples

Official samples

• GameLift Example for Unity with Serverless Backend - A GameLift example with a Serverless backend service that helps you get started with GameLift development and leverages deployment automation and Infrastructure as Code. Works on MacOS, Windows as well as mobile platforms.
• amazon-gamelift-unity - A sample code shows how to set up a basic GameLift server and client for games using the Unity Game Engine.
• aws-gamelift-sample (with FlexMatch) - A sample Gomoku board game project using Amazon GameLift and AWS serverless services including DynamoDB, Lambda, SQS, S3, and so on.
• Game Server Hosting on Amazon Elastic Container Service with Amazon GameLift FleetIQ - A sample solution on how to scale a fleet of game servers on Elastic Container Service and match players to game sessions using a Serverless backend. Game Sessions are managed by Amazon GameLift FleetIQ. All resources are deployed with Infrastructure as Code using CloudFormation, Serverless Application Model, Docker and bash scripts.
• GameLift Example for Unity with Serverless Backend - A simple 3D game GameLift example with a Serverless backend service designed especially for getting started with MacOS and mobile development and leveraging deployment automation and Infrastructure as Code.
• megafrogRace-gameLift-realtime-server-sample - A sample 2D racing game using Amazon GameLift (Realtime Servers) and AWS services including AWS Lambda and Amazon Cognito.
• Persistent Game Server with Amazon GameLift - A sample includes how to implement persistent game server based on Amazon GameLift.

Archived

• amazon-gamelift-largematch-sample-ultrafrogroyale - A small game built with Unity to demonstrate how to use the new Amazon GameLift large match features. (using archived mobile SDK for unity)

Other samples

• Unity GameLift/Mirror Sample - Features a working multiplayer sample using AWS GameLift and Mirror on Unity. Supports IL2CPP and mobile devices.

Videos

Official videos

• Dedicated Servers with Amazon GameLift AWS Game Tech Series.
• Getting Started with Amazon GameLift FleetIQ by AWS Online Tech Talks.

Other videos

• Better together: running containerized game servers with Agones and GameLift FleetIQ.
• Unity + Amazon GameLift RealTime Servers Series by Battery Acid.
• Unity + GameLift Custom Server Series by Battery Acid.

Made with GameLift

• For Honor by Ubisoft.
• Ninjala by GungHo.

Contribute

Contributions are always welcome! Please read the contribution guidelines first.

License

The project is licensed under BSD 3-Clause License.

AWS and Amazon GameLift are trademarks and brands of Amazon Technologies.

DISCLAIMER: Awesome-GameLift is an open-source project, not an official project provided by Amazon Technologies.