Cocos Plugin - Quickstart

Edgegap fully managed game servers and automated orchestration leverage the world’s largest distributed edge network to deploy game servers nearest to your players.

This allows your multiplayer to reduce latency by up to 58% and delivers up to 78% “real-time” latency (sub-50 ms) vs. traditional public cloud1 for your game and players.

For devs, integration is refreshingly easy, low code, and takes minutes thanks to our fully compatible Cocos plugin with versions Cocos Creator (3.6.1) and above. It definitely won't work in the version before 3.x.

What to Expect

1. Create an account on Edgegap.com – Its easy & free. Our onboarding walks you through all the steps listed below.

2. How to install & launch the plugin:

   • Download the plugin from our GitHub, then drag & drop it in Cocos extension plugin folder.

   • Start Cocos Creator, and from the "Extension" located at the top of the editor, select "Edgegap / Open Panel"

3. Ready - Input the "Edgegap Integration" parameters from your web account (see image below). Then…

4. Set – Click on “Build".

   • The build process will automatically build the server, create a Docker image, push it to our registry, and create the application.

5. Go - Once completed, select "Push”.

And that’s it! Your game server is now automatically cached to 550+ locations globally, ensuring its deployed nearest your players when requested, on-demand, by your players.

Edgegap Panel - Reference

For an easier time, follow the documentation, and make sure you meet the prerequisite.

What Else Do You Get?

Edgegap does more than latency reduction through an easy integration. Here are a few benefits for your online game and yourself (or your dev team)!   

• Cross-Compatible: Your community can play across any hardware; PC, mobile, consoles, browser – you name it.

• Region-less Hosting – On-Demand: Picking & choosing your regions or availability zones is now a thing of the past. Your players are everywhere in the world – so is now your game.

• ~3 Seconds Game Server Deployment: A better user experience for your players inside your game.

• No More Ops: Multi-version support & automated rolling updates.

• Fully Managed: From start to end, we automatically handle game server’s lifecycle. No more Dev Ops engineers required.

• Unlimited Scaling: Rapid scaling, based on player demand, that is automatically distributed across 17+ providers. No need to manage complex products from AWS/Google Cloud/Azure/etc.

• No Upfront Costs or Fixed Monthly Server Fees: Pay-per-minute, ONLY for play time. Meaning, you pay only when players play your multiplayer – that’s it.

You’re Going on an Adventure – But Not Alone

You’re never alone - Our Discord has our actual developers ready to answer your questions, alongside other game devs to engage with. Come & chat with other devs on our Discord community.