![]() When you're looking for your friends in Call of Duty, you have to use the Activision ID. "If you play Call of Duty, the latest Call of Duty has cross-platform capabilities. If you have a Ubisoft Uplay account, you go to their website and that's where you actually link the different accounts. You've probably already seen some of these. "With account linking, you want to be able to link your common account with the different varying platform accounts. "This is done by something called account linking," Arifianto said. How does a game identify a player across Steam, Epic, Xbox, PlayStation, and Switch? As an example, if you ship games on Xbox One, I'm sure you know you have to use their multiplayer session directory, even if you have your own matchmaking service." Know your players And then anything the platform requires you to use. You also have to connect and use their e-commerce services, especially if you are intending to monetize your game with in-app purchases. "So what can you use from a first-party platform? You definitely have to use identity and account. You'll have to have your own set of services and your own matchmaking, which links behind the scenes and connects to the different services. If you want to make a cross-platform game, unfortunately, you cannot use most of those. Xbox Live, Steamworks - they have robust capabilities. "When you are shipping games on different platforms, there are platform services available for you to use," Arifianto said. ![]() Know what services you can and cannot use But now, more and more big games are making use of the technology - and a handful of smaller titles, too.ĪccelByte VP of tech Raymond Arifianto believes that cross-platform's rise will only continue, and in his GDC 2020 talk "Is your game cross-platform ready?" he offered several tips for developers considering cross-platform implementation - including cross-play, cross-progression, and cross-buy - in their titles. It wasn't all that long ago that developers were lamenting the stubbornness of certain platform holders over allowing cross-platform play on their consoles.
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