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All realtime, social and competitive APIs needed for games.
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Join us in creating the first open-source distributed server for social and realtime games and apps.
Join us on the forum. Meet the Nakama team, chat with community members, and have your questions answered.
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.
Own your infrastructure in one open-source package.
All realtime, social and competitive APIs needed for games.
We sponsor and support active open-source projects that help game developers.
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.
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 is a free and open game engine used for development of console, desktop, mobile and web games.
Defold was created by Ragnar Svensson and Christian Murray. King and Defold started a partnership in 2013 and King acquired Defold in 2014.
Heroic Labs partnered with CYBERTEC to sponsor the open-source development of ZHeap for the popular PostgresSQL database.
Zheap is the next-gen drop-in replacement storage engine aimed to improve critical performance paths in very large and active database instances.
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.
Read the announcementThe 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
Apache 2.0. Commercial licenses are also available. Please contact us for more information.
All client libraries are licensed under Apache 2.0.
Licenses will vary. See the individual driver documentation for details.
Documentation: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International
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.