Forest Anderson
Blog
Technical
Is Godot 4's Multiplayer a Worthy Alternative to Unity?
Comparing Unity's high-level multiplayer API with Unity's Fish-Net framework.
Nathan Flurry
Monthly Update
August 2023 Monthly Update
Unity support, custom lobbies, external verification, lobby state, faster starts, Java/Go clients
Nicholas Kissel
Monthly Update
June 2023 Monthly Update
We've gone open-source, updated our website, and improved our docs
Nicholas Kissel
Launch Week
Launch Week 1, Day 4: Namespace Version History
Quickly roll back to the last version deployed to a namespace
Nathan Flurry
Launch Week
Launch Week 1, Day 3: Matchmaker & Identity Analytics
Get analytics tailored to user behavior out of the box in your game with Rivet's new analytics dashboard
Nathan Flurry
Launch Week
Launch Week 1, Day 2: TLS+TLS & UDP support in Game Guard
Use Game Guard for TCP+TLS & UDP sockets to protect from DDoS traffic and handle TLS termination
Nathan Flurry
Launch Week
Launch Week 1, Day 1: Unreal Engine Module
Official Rivet Unreal Engine module allows you to deploy your multiplayer game to Rivet
Nathan Flurry
Changelog
Polished CLI, new API libraries, and more
New JavaScript/TypeScript API library, published OpenAPI spec, published new CLI, cloud version configs are now easier to write with game mode
Nathan Flurry
Changelog
Resizing & compression for user images
Avatars are automatically compressed and resized to improve load times, parameters can now be passed to the avatar request to specify custom sizes
Nathan Flurry
Changelog
Colyseus Arena End of Life: Migrating to Rivet & Official Colyseus Plugin
Colyseus Arena was shut down on March 31st. Use the new Rivet plugin to seamlessly migrate to Rivet.
Nathan Flurry
Changelog
Custom domain SSL, more captchas, friend requests, and more
Custom SSL certificates is now provided for custom domains, Cloudflare Turnstile can now be used for matchmaker captcha, registration emails sent to users now match the style of the game they're coming from
Nathan Flurry