Ask HN: Integrating video games into your site?

1 point·ashton77··5 comments

I've been googling around and all I've managed to find are mostly awful ad-supported flash based game sites.

I'm basically looking for the Twilio of online video games. Something where I could use RESTful APIs to initiate a multiplayer game between remote clients.

Do such services exist?

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Multiplayer is going to be a tough requirement. There are not a lot of multiplayer games because Flash has been technologically handcuffed on that side for a while, and because most Flash game developers are indies who don't want to make that significant extra commitment.

A lot of Flash games launch without ads, you can get embed codes for a pretty fair selection of them here:

http://playtomic.com/games/catalog

For multiplayer games my friends at Nonoba (aka the Player IO guys which is the leading platform for multiplayer stuff for Flash games) are the ones you want to look at:

http://nonoba.com/

They have embed codes in the 'share' tab.

Thanks. Yeah I was looking at nonoba. I'll definitely take a closer look.

wouldn't the biggest issue be that to have a standard api for multiplayer games would be that each game has their own specific rules. If you are just talking about matchmaking, then look at open feint.

Looked at it. Very cool but I'm looking at browser based games for now. It seems to be only mobile.

Olá, tenho um multiplicado de moedas e de habbobr, estou aqui para ajudar quem precisa ou quem quer ter um pouco mais para complementar seus habbos

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