The popular open-source game server
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Nakama Open-Source
Join us in creating the first open-source distributed server for social and realtime games and apps.
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Join us on the forum. Meet the Nakama team, chat with community members, and have your questions answered.
Nakama on GitHub
Get a copy of the source code with complete history, as well as report issues, suggest new features, and follow development on the GitHub repo.
Open-source client libraries for Nakama
Heroic Labs ♥ Open-Source
We sponsor and support active open-source projects that help game developers.
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Godot Engine
Godot is a 2D and 3D, cross-platform game engine. A powerful yet user-friendly tool that you can use to develop any kind of game.
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Godot is completely free and open-source under the very permissive MIT license. Your game is yours, down to the last line of engine code. -
Defold Engine
Defold is a free and open game engine used for development of console, desktop, mobile and web games.
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Defold was created by Ragnar Svensson and Christian Murray. King and Defold started a partnership in 2013 and King acquired Defold in 2014. -
PostgreSQL Zheap Storage Engine
Heroic Labs partnered with CYBERTEC to sponsor the open-source development of ZHeap for the popular PostgresSQL database.
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Zheap is the next-gen drop-in replacement storage engine aimed to improve critical performance paths in very large and active database instances. -
PhaserJS
Phaser is the biggest HTML5 game development framework on the market. A fast, free and fun open-source framework for Canvas and WebGL powered browser games.
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Contribute to Nakama open-source
The community is growing and we welcome feature contributions, bug fixes, documentation improvements, and any other ways you can contribute. Nakama developers use the GitHub issues tracker to share and discuss changes.
To get started with contributing, follow these steps:
Create a Git branch to work on
Commit your work with clear commit messages and sign-offs
Open a PR against the Nakama repository
Open-Source Licenses
Server License
Apache 2.0. Commercial licenses are also available. Please contact us for more information.
Client Licenses
All client libraries are licensed under Apache 2.0.
Third-party drivers
Licenses will vary. See the individual driver documentation for details.
Documentation License
Documentation: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International
Get started with Nakama
Build social, multiplayer, and competitive features into your game with Nakama’s scalable, open source back end.
Spin it up on your laptop or in the cloud to get started.