Game Center

Bring even more fun and connection to your games with Game Center, Apple’s social gaming network. Game Center lets players build an identity and connect with friends across Apple platforms. You can easily integrate Game Center features, including leaderboards, achievements, multiplayer matchmaking, and real-time play.

Boost discovery and engagement

Enabling Game Center in your game helps players discover your game across their Apple devices, on the App Store, Home Screen widgets, and more. New players can find your game through their friends and existing players can be motivated to keep playing through notifications, leaderboards, and achievements.

Features

• Player identity: You can personalize your game’s experience by using a player’s Game Center nickname as a default username to streamline your onboarding or sign-in experience, showing the player’s avatar inside your game’s multiplayer experience, and more.
• Leaderboards: Encourage friendly competition and re-engagement with your game with a simple API to submit scores from your game, a convenient leaderboard UI, and notifications automatically sent to players when their friends pass their score.
• Access point: Provide convenient access to your supported Game Center features, without players needing to leave your game.
• Achievements: Use achievements to motivate players and help them track progress in your game. Your players can collect them and unlock them for their friends to see. And with achievement rarity, players can view the number of other players who’ve unlocked a particular achievement, so they’ll stay motivated and excited about what they’ve accomplished.
• Multiplayer: Provide a familiar and consistent way for players to jump into multiplayer experiences without leaving your game. Game Center supports real-time and turn-based multiplayer functionality, so players can invite Game Center friends, contacts, iMessage groups, and nearby players, or automatch with other competitors to quickly start playing.
• Matchmaking: Game Center provides infrastructure to match players with other players for real-time or turn-based matches. Improve player matches by adding matchmaking rules that use game-specific parameters, such as skill level and party codes.
• Saved games: Game Center can save a player’s game state, allowing players to continue playing from where they last left off across their Apple devices.
• Turn-based games: Game Center can store and send match data between multiple players in a turn-based game, notifying each player when it’s their turn next.