SPEAKER:
Norbert Gaal

Guest Speaker

Norbert Gaal

Client Technology Lead (Azure Gaming)

With over 15+ years of experience working in a variety of architecture and infrastructure management roles, Norbert works in the Azure Gaming team at Microsoft. Norbert’s love of games started in the 80’s when he first discovered C64, and today, he’s responsible for accelerating technical engagement with games studios, publishers, and gaming communities across the UK.

Building multiplayer games with PlayFab

Explore the horizon of multiplayer game development with PlayFab in this tech talk. We will focus on PlayFab’s multiplayer capabilities, PlayFab Party and PlayFab Multiplayer Servers (MPS). We kick off with an introduction to PlayFab Party, a service that provides low-latency networking and rich communication features for your games. We'll show you how to establish ad-hoc networks that facilitate smooth player interactions, as well as how to incorporate voice and chat capabilities, making your games more immersive and social. From there, we navigate to the realm of PlayFab MPS for scenarios necessitating an authoritative game server. We'll discuss how it caters to demanding multiplayer scenarios, providing server-based game logic to maintain fairness, prevent cheating, and manage complex game states.