Introduction
The gaming industry is diverse and plays a significant part in entertainment, manufacturing, education, socializationFor example, during the pandemic, almost everyone was confined to their homes but could still make friends and connect to others emotionally via different gaming platforms., and other areas. This makes designing and developing these systems from scratch an intricate process. As a result, many vendors create general-purpose versions of their game APIs and offer backend as a service (BaaS), a service model that outsources basic and common functionalities that can be used in a variety of development scenarios, to facilitate other developers. Designing a gaming API is difficult since there are several elements to consider including managing resources (game stats, user information, leaderboards, etc.), real-time communication (chat, audio conferencing, etc.), simulationSimulation is the creation of a situation as a digital model, usually for research or study purposes., streaming (live streaming to a platform like YouTube), as well as the actual gameplay, which are all complex problems themselves. For the sake of understanding the subtleties, let's take a multiplayer online game as an example and design an API for it.
Requirements
Modern games support a large number of functions. This is because ...