PlayFab Multiplayer documentation

PlayFab Multiplayer services support real-time multiplayer capabilities for matchmaking, grouping, networking, and server hosting.

Understand Multiplayer

Overview

• What is Multiplayer?

Concept

• What are Multiplayer servers?
• What is Lobby?
• What is Matchmaking?
• What is Party?

Get started with Multiplayer

Concept

• Understand PlayFab game server

Quickstart

• Getting started with Lobby
• Getting started with Matchmaking
• Getting started with the Party SDK

Tutorial

• Integrating game servers with the PlayFab Game Server SDK (GSDK)
• Enabling PlayFab Party
• Matchmaking scenario and configuration examples
• Use Lobby and Matchmaking together
• Locally debugging game servers and integration with PlayFab
• Deploying PlayFab multiplayer server builds

Manage customer relationship

Concept

• Using Quality-of-Service (QoS) beacons to measure player latency to Azure
• Azure Enterprise Agreement (EA) billing for PlayFab services
• Billing for PlayFab Multiplayer Servers 2.0
• Multiplayer servers - detailed price sheet
• PlayFab incident response procedures

Pricing

Overview

• Meters Overview

Reference

• PlayFab Pricing
• Consumption Best Practices

Refer to APIs

Reference

• Party C/C++ API
• Server API/PowerShell
• Lobby C/C++ API
• Matchmaking C/C++ API