{"id":1622,"date":"2020-12-11T11:56:50","date_gmt":"2020-12-11T11:56:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/smartfoxserver.com\/blog\/?p=1622"},"modified":"2020-12-11T11:56:50","modified_gmt":"2020-12-11T11:56:50","slug":"how-to-deploy-a-game-in-overcast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smartfoxserver.com\/blog\/how-to-deploy-a-game-in-overcast\/","title":{"rendered":"How to deploy a game in Overcast"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

In this third article in the series dedicated to Overcast<\/a>, the cloud solution for SmartFoxServer 2X, we will focus on the deployment of your games onto a cloud server.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For this purpose we will use one of the existing SFS2X examples, the Tris game<\/strong> (aka Tic-Tac-Toe), which we released for almost all supported platforms. We will refer to the Unity<\/strong> version of the example, but all the concepts relevant to the purpose of this article apply to any version.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you are new to SmartFoxServer, don’t worry: we will also provide some context and guidance to get started!<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Getting started with SmartFoxServer<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

For those who landed on this article looking for a cloud-based multiplayer server for their game, but have never explored SmartFoxServer before, keep reading this section. All the others can skip to the next chapter<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

First of all, what is SmartFoxServer? As stated on the homepage of our website, SmartFoxServer is an SDK for rapidly developing multiplayer games and applications based on a choice of technologies, the most prominent currently being HTML5 (web) and Unity (desktop, mobile devices and web \u2014 the latter thanks to WebGL). In other words it consists of a server-side middleware<\/strong> and a number of client-side API<\/strong> to develop any kind of multiplayer experience, from turn-based games to realtime games, from collaborative applications to virtual communities and MMO worlds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SmartFoxServer was born in 2004 and has followed the evolution of the multiplayer games market since then, powering a number of very successful projects (a few of which you will find listed in this showcase<\/a>). The current version (called 2X) has seen the light in 2010 and we kept improving it since then. The latest iteration of such improvements is the release of Overcast<\/strong>, our first-party solution to deploy SmartFoxServer in the cloud.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you are new to SmartFoxServer and possibly to multiplayer game development, the first step before proceeding “to the cloud” is to become familiar with the product and its API. You should start by downloading and installing the Community Edition<\/strong>, which is a free version of SFS2X, offering 100% of its features and supporting up to 100 concurrent users.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Go to the download page<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n

We then recommend to skim through some of the main introductory topics in our online documentation. Our suggestion is to read at least:<\/p>\n\n\n\n