Interplay Low-Code and Gaming

Low-Code and Game Development

Low-code is a contemporary method of coding, where creators can take advantage of pre-made components. Each component can be dragged and dropped before connecting to one another. This system maximizes efficiency, allowing developers to build applications with ease. Low-code also allows for custom code within the components. If you want to learn more about low-code, check out our article here.

Several low-code game development environments are available: GameMaker Studio 2, Playmaker, and Unreal Engine all allow creators to build out games without needing complex programming. It should be noted, however, that flexibility in these pre-designed studios may be limited.

Interplay Low-Code Advantages for Game Development

Interplay, our innovation-driven middleware platform, excels at connecting a wide array of 3rd party apps and functionalities. The low-code method is advantageous in many spaces, and certain benefits make it particularly beneficial in the gaming industry.

Fast Updates: In the gaming world, developers need to constantly update their games in order to keep them new and exciting for their player base. It is essential to keep up with countless competitors, especially with new games popping up every day. With the Interplay low-code drag-and-drop platform, developers do not need to put nearly as much time into coding each specific aspect of the game as they design. Maintenance burden goes down, updates go up.

Increasing Complexity: Games that involve immersive worlds and large maps often involve hundreds or thousands of NPCs, complex economic dynamics, and real-world tie-ins.. This requires an ever-evolving backend suite of applications to track and run that in-game economy. Developers who can integrate quickly and safely will be able to continue to push the worlds in their games.

Expanding Developer Pool: Studios employ thousands of developers, creatives, directors, and artists. Chronic labor pinch-points in game engine development has forced many studios to push their developers beyond the breaking point with overtime and poor working conditions. However, Low-Code brings the opportunity to expand game development to more non-programmers, allowing more creatives and designers to build out the basics of their games without relying on an understaffed developer team.

Easy Connections to Infrastructure: Game metaverses are completely reliant on dependable infrastructure: cloud, bandwidth, messaging, databases. Interplay makes integrating with these infrastructure providers as easy as snapping together nodes and entering API keys.

Interplay has over 475 nodes across the 5 forces of innovation: AI, IoT, Blockchain, Big Data, and Startups. As such, Interplay provides game studios several useful tools needed for development:

Game Dynamics - Interplay pulls in APIs and wraps each into a discreet node that is both secure and configurable. With this, Interplay can connect to any major game engine that has an exposed API:

Unity Scipting API
Unreal Engine API
Amazon Lumberyard API

Cloud - Game studios must build out an increasing portion of their infrastructure on the cloud to keep games responsive and ‘always on’. Interplay has several integration nodes with cloud providers already built in:

AWS
Airship
GCP
Pubnub

Speech-to-text - As players interact with each other, protocols for protecting kids demand that messages be analyzed for threats, bullying, and codes of conduct. Interplay has nodes for handling speech-to-text AI engines available:

AssemblyAI
Chatbot
dialogflow

Combined, these nodes and integrations make Interplay an incredibly dynamic and useful platform for game studios as they continue to keep their games fresh and smart. If your development studio wants to see more about Interplay, please contact us right away to schedule a demo.