Disagreement on Monday announced the launch of its Discord Social SDK, a free gear that allows developers to exploit the social infrastructure of the platform to improve the social and multiplayer experiences of their games. The gear allows developers to improve their in-game experiences, whether players have a disagreement account or not.
Social integrations include a unified list of friends, which allows players to access their disagreement friends in-game and their in-game friends about disagreement, making it easy to stay connected both in and out of the game. Additionally, the SDK offers deep linked games that allow players to invite their friends to directly join their party or lobby.
Communication features include inter-platform messages to allow players to continue conversing through desktop, console and cellphone. Other features include the ability to link in-game talks to specific disagreement channels on their servers, and voice chat.
“For creators from indie games to AAA, Discord is where you can connect with the world’s largest and most involved community of players to feed the growth of your game before, during and after launch,” Discord co -founder and CTO Stan Vishnevskiy, said in a press release. “Discovery and retaining games have never been so critical, and we are excited to help developers grow their games reaching players where they are.”
Discord says the gear is already used by many developers, including Theorecraft games, Facepunch Studios, 1047 games, scope, Mainframe Industries, Elodie Games, Tencent Games, and others.
Discord Social SDK matches C ++, unreal engine, and unity, and supports Windows 11+ and MacOS. Support for console and cellphone will come soon, the company says.
The platform has over 200 million monthly active users who spend a combined 1.5+ billion hours playing games monthly only on a computer.
