Next steps

Now that you have created you first match, gotten an overview of the core elements of Idem and learned about the two architecture types you are ready to integrate the Idem matchmaker into your game and ship it to your customers.

We recommend to do this in two steps:

1. Initial setup
2. Customizing your matchmaker

Initial setup

The first step is setting up the general matchmaking flow between your game and Idem. Depending on the architecture pick one of the step-by-step guides below:

Step-by-step buide for server-based architecture

Step-by-step buide for player-based architecture

Note: If you are planning to use 3rd-party Game-Backend-as-a-Service solutions (e.g. Pragma, Accelbyte), see Game backends for more information on how to set them up and reference code.

Customizing your matchmaker

By default the matchmaker ist configured with a 1v1 game mode and a target-waiting-time of 1 second. We recommend to keep that for the initial setup so that you can quickly test if everything is wired up correctly.

Once your setup is up and running with the default configuration, the matchmaker can be customized to perfectly fit your game. The key steps of this will be:

1. Configuring your game mode/s
2. Adjusting the target-waiting-time
3. Adding additional integrations like authentication providers or a lobby service

Please reach out to us at match@idem.gg so we can update the configuration for you. You will soon be able to customize this yourself in the console.