openmatch-node

an unofficial typescript implementation of the open-match SDK.

Scope and Goals

the open match framework consists of several gRPC services and consumers. A few provided by open-match core installation and others need to be implemented by the game developers. This library is a typescript implementation of gRPC/protobuf API allowing ts/js developers to implement a highly scalable match maker based on open-match for multiplayer games. deployment of open match even locally is based on kubernetes (minikube for local installation). All the installation instructions can be found on https://www.openmatch.dev

follow the official docs, the tutorials in this repo are a typescript implementation of the original tutorials written in golang. You can find the original tutorials here: https://github.com/googleforgames/open-match/tree/main/tutorials

What is Open Match

Open Match is an open-source game matchmaking framework that simplifies building a scalable and extensible Matchmaker. It is designed to give the game developer full control over how to make matches while removing the burden of dealing with the challenges of running a production service at scale.

Why Open Match

Building your Matchmaker is hard! Along with implementing the core logic to generate quality matches, it also involves solving challenging problems such as handling massive player populations, effectively searching through them and concurrently processing match generation logic at scale. Open Match framework provides core services that solve these problems so that the game developers can focus on the matchmaking logic to match players into great games. In comparison to off-the-shelf config based Matchmaking solutions, Open Match enables game developers to easily build a customized Matchmaker that can account for the unique requirements of the game.

The official docs are here: https://open-match.dev/site/docs/overview/