Real-time meets Roar Engine's games mechanics API through our partnership with PubNub

Everyone knows that Roar Engine is the world’s most awesome and spectacular asynchronous game mechanics platform. But there are times when your game calls for a little extra real-time sugar - whether that’s live chat, synchronised avatar movements in a game world, or real-time combat actions (or like a thousand other ideas for real-time play). In times like these, what is a developer to do?

Fear not intrepid developer, the good news is that today Roar Engine is announcing our partnership with PubNub, the leading cloud service for real-time communications for mobile, tablet and web. Combining the game mechanics of Roar and the real-time messaging of PubNub, developers get access to the best of both worlds.

PubNub is a real-time messaging API, a bit like Twitter for devices, with more messages flowing through PubNub than Twitter everyday. It’s easy to learn and easy to use, so you don’t need to be a real-time communications expert. That means you focus on your unique applications and content, and get your solution or web site in front of your customers faster.

Like Roar Engine, PubNub is a cloud service so there is no operational expertise required and zero system management effort. Simply call into the PubNub API and they take care of the rest, ensuring the scalability and reliability of the service and providing you with a guaranteed service level. If a network connection drops messages are delivered automatically upon re-connect, making it ideal for mobile applications.

In addition to operational services, PubNub also offers a rich set of analytics for both monitoring and for analysis of application usage that provide a unique insight into how applications or web site are being used. PubNub also provides client libraries for all major programming languages and mobile platforms to make web data push development super easy.

Over the coming weeks, we’re going to be creating some demos to show off the powerful combination of a game mechanics engine and real-time communication system. But in the meantime, jump straight in - it’s free to get started.

If you're looking for a real-time solution for your game, you can't go past PubNub: check it out!