Hour Host is an upcoming cloud platform designed to simplify multiplayer game infrastructure for game studios and indie developers. Discover the powerful tools coming your way to build, host, and scale multiplayer games with ease.
Game development today requires more than just creativity. It demands robust, scalable infrastructure that adapts to your players’ needs without overwhelming your engineering resources. That is why we are excited to introduce Hour Host, a soon-to-launch cloud platform tailored specifically for game studios and indie developers.
Hour Host is designed to take care of your multiplayer backend so you can focus on building great games. Here is a sneak peek at some of the core services you will be able to leverage:
A flexible container deployment system that lets you run web servers, databases, and proprietary applications using your own custom container images. Whether you are building dynamic backends or internal tools, Sandbox offers fine-grained control over deployment, scaling, and networking.
Our serverless compute platform for running lightweight, event-driven code without managing containers or infrastructure. Functions are ideal for short-lived tasks, automations, or extending your game servers with dynamic behaviors. They automatically scale and are billed based on usage.
A scalable, serverless solution to host multiplayer game servers. With pay-as-you-play pricing, your servers can scale down to zero when no players are online, saving costs, and instantly scale up as your player base grows. You can also use Fleets to auto-scale based on CPU, memory, or player count.
Define your game’s network protocols by describing your packet data structures. This enables Hour Host services like Sandbox, Game Servers, and Game Guard to deeply understand and interact with your game data, streamlining integration and data handling.
A real-time messaging and state synchronization service using Channels. Relay is perfect for game lobbies, leaderboards, and live events. It supports public, private, or unprotected channels with persistent state and automatic updates to subscribers.
Track players’ real-time locations across servers and services. Player Presence powers live dashboards, friend join notifications, automated scaling, and contextual matchmaking by giving you instant insight into where your players are and what they are doing.
A specialized event-chain database for managing player data such as stats, achievements, inventories, and matchmaking scores. Revert enables you to revert changes contextually, which is great for moderation, cheating detection, and maintaining fairness.
A high-performance, real-time database optimized for massive leaderboards. It is perfect for global rankings, competitive ladders, and friend-based scoreboards, with accurate sorting and subscription-based real-time updates.
Unlike generic cloud providers, Hour Host is built specifically to address the challenges of multiplayer game development. From scalable infrastructure to real-time player data and security, it gives game studios and indie developers powerful tools to focus on creativity while we handle the backend complexity.
Hour Host is launching soon. Visit https://docs.hour.host to stay updated and be among the first to access this game-changing platform designed just for you.