Steamworks is a free suite of tools available to any developer to use in their game or software on Steam. Here is a small sampling of the available features:
Cost / License
- Paid
- Proprietary
Platforms
- Online
Xbox Live Creators Program is described as 'With the Xbox Live Creators Program, anyone can integrate Xbox Live into their title and publish to Xbox One and Windows 10' and is an app. There are six alternatives to Xbox Live Creators Program for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Web-based, Mac and SaaS apps. The best Xbox Live Creators Program alternative is Steamworks. It's not free, so if you're looking for a free alternative, you could try Photon Engine. Other great apps like Xbox Live Creators Program are Unity Multiplayer, Reactor Multiplayer Engine, SmartFoxServer and SocketWeaver.
Steamworks is a free suite of tools available to any developer to use in their game or software on Steam. Here is a small sampling of the available features:
Unity Multiplayer is the way to create multiplayer games for Unity. Unity-provided servers ensure that your players can find and play with each other.
Global cross platform multiplayer game backend as a service (SaaS, Cloud) for synchronous and asynchronous games and applications. SDKs are available for android, iOS, .NET., Mac OS, Unity 3D, Windows, Unreal Engine, HTML5 and others.
Reactor is a fully server-authoritative multiplayer system which includes integrated hosting and orchestration as well as the most efficient networking stack available.
SmartFoxServer is a comprehensive SDK for rapidly developing multiplayer games and applications with Adobe Flash/Flex/Air, Unity, HTML5, iOS, Windows Phone 8, Android, Java, Windows 8, C++ and more.
