Lightning Talk: Open Match - Matchmaking Framework
Open Match is an open source game matchmaking framework that simplifies building a scalable and extensible Matchmaker. Open Match is designed to give the game developer full control over how to genera …
Talk Title | Lightning Talk: Open Match - Matchmaking Framework |
Speakers | Robert Bailey (Staff Software Engineer, Google) |
Conference | KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America |
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Location | San Diego, CA, USA |
Date | Nov 15-21, 2019 |
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Open Match is an open source game matchmaking framework that simplifies building a scalable and extensible Matchmaker. Open Match is designed to give the game developer full control over how to generate quality matches without having to deal with the challenges of building a scalable online production service. It enables the game developer to re-use the core framework code across games, and just focusing on the rebuilding the matchmaking logic custom to each game.At its core, Open Match comprises of a set of services hosted in a Kubernetes cluster that manage Players, trigger custom matchmaking logic to generate match proposals and provides ability to evaluate these for quality. The framework also provides functionality such as monitoring, alerting, metrics analysis, autoscaling etc.