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Concepts

LayerG provides many features to aid you in the development of your social, multiplayer and realtime applications.

This section collects all of the major features and dives into the theory and practice of each.

LayerG Universal Account

Every user is registered and has a profile for other users to find and become friends with or join groups and chat.

Friends

Friends are a great way to build a social community.

Groups and Clans

A group brings together a bunch of users into a small community or team.

Real-time chat

Users can chat with each other 1-on-1, as part of a group, and in chat rooms.

In-app notifications

In-app notifications make it easy to broadcast a message to one or more users.

Leaderboards

Leaderboards are a great way to add a social and competitive element to any game.

Matchmaker

The matchmaker makes it easy to find active opponents to play against in real-time and turn-based games.

Multiplayer

The multiplayer engine makes it easy for users to set up and join matches where they can rapidly exchange data with opponents.

Subgraph Network

Subgraph Network is a decentralized network of crawlers, and is embedded in the server. This network help developers to earn LayerG tokens by indexing data and ensuring data validation across the network.

Marketplace

A place for your player to discover and trade unique digital assets on our cutting-edge NFT marketplace. Featuring a seamless user experience by utilzing Universal Account, and a diverse collection from various games, ranging through different genres.

Game developer can directly launch their collection to the marketplace from Game Engine Admin Console.

Asset Manager

Simplify file asset upload, management and retrieval for fast game development.

After exploring these concepts, you can move on to the Client Libraries and Server Framework sections for more in-depth examples.