What Heroic Labs Nakama AI does
Nakama is an open-source game backend from Heroic Labs for real-time multiplayer, social, and competitive features. It is aimed at game developers, studios, and publishers. The server provides server-authoritative and client-relayed matches, matchmaking based on custom properties, leaderboards, tournaments, in-game currencies, friends, groups and clans, chat, and social sign-in. Developers write server logic in Go, TypeScript, JavaScript, or Lua and can call RPCs, hooks, and the database directly. Client libraries cover Unity, Unreal, Godot, Defold, Cocos2d-x, JavaScript, C and C++, and Java for Android. The server and clients are Apache 2.0 licensed, and commercial licenses are available on request.
How Heroic Labs Nakama AI compares with its closest alternatives
4 of the 5 closest alternatives have a free plan, as Heroic Labs Nakama AI does. All 5 offer an API, as Heroic Labs Nakama AI does. Heroic Labs Nakama AI offers a self-hosted version. Of the 4 alternatives with platforms on record, none offers a self-hosted version. Heroic Labs Nakama AI was founded in 2015; the alternatives were founded between 2017 and 2023. Heroic Labs Nakama AI is based in London, United Kingdom; none of the 3 alternatives with a known headquarters is in the United Kingdom. They are in Canada, the United States and Sweden.