End-to end Tournament Automation with Gameye and Toornament
Gameye recently joined forces with Toornament. The following blog is a guest blog co-written by Toornament Director Antoine Frankart and our own head of business development Andrew Walker. The blog exlpains the nature of the cooperation between Toornament and Gameye.
Toornament shares a common mission with Gameye: empowering the global eSports and multiplayer game ecosystem.
Gameye gives game studios the power to deploy game sessions closer to their players. The Gameye agnostic approach to game server infrastructure enables servers resources to scale according to player demand and as features & content are released.
With Toornament, we allow the structuring of eSports by making competition creation easy, with brackets, leagues, swiss systems, and helping the promotion of the tournaments, thanks to our sharing tools. The Toornament technology is open for the communities and can be directly integrated into video games.
Today Gameye and Toornament join forces to easily add tournament automation into any video game, thanks to their respective technologies and APIs. Game studios will be able to ready their game for esports in a fraction of the time it used to take.
What do we mean by tournament automation? On Toornament, you can organize a tournament on any multiplayer game, on any platform (PC, console, mobile…).
There are different levels of game integration, let’s look at what they mean:
The first one is fairly simple: by signing up with Toornament and adding game-specific content, a game becomes available on the Toornament platform. At this level, score reporting for tournaments is manual.
The second level is a complete Gameye integration. This means we can connect directly to the video game and Gameye supplies the game sessions on-demand. Players join and play, with the match results passed back automatically.
Therefore a full Gameye and Toornament integration simplifies and automates the two main aspects of a running competition:
- Match Lobby: competitors join the same game session and play their match
- Match Result Collection: Gameye sends the match result data directly back to Toornament
Communities will be able to create better competitions and stories, thanks to the Toornament platform that will take care of connecting the players and getting the scores. Game studios will be able to increase the retention of their players, and the attractiveness of their video games, thanks to eSports and competitions.
With the Gameye partnership, we have connected our technologies. Video game studios can rely on the scalable game server infrastructure of Gameye and benefit from the tournament automation of Toornament.
Start your tournament by going to www.toornament.com
Get started with Gameye by going to docs.gameye.com or come visit our Discord to talk to our support team: https://discord.gg/Y2tHgv
Antoine Frankart antoine.frankart@webedia-group.com
Andrew Walker andrew@gameye.com
