The past year, the most frequent request we received from our customers was: “Can Idem help us simplify player auth?”
Starting today, the answer is: Yes! We are happy to announce native integrations with Steam and Firebase as authentication providers. Steam covers the vast majority of PC gamers, while Firebase extends the possibilities with its own native options of anonymous, user/password, phone, plus popular providers like Google, Apple, Microsoft, Facebook and Github. For extra flexibility, you can even connect your own custom OpenID Connect or SAML solution. Simply choose what works best for your setup and player base.
Whether you are an indie developer looking for an auth solution or an AA-studio seeking a setup for quick development and prototyping: We’ll make sure that every player put in a match is authorized to play and not impersonating anyone else.
The best part of all of this? You might not need a backend anymore – at all.
The no-backend game
The nightmare of a successful indie game
One of our customers recently came to us with a problem: He had just launched his multiplayer mobile-game, which – to his surprise – turned out to be a hit.
What seemed like great news, turned into sleepless nights: As more and more players poured into his game, his self-built backend began to buckle under the pressure. Originally built for a small, casual playerbase, the backend now needed to support a larger-scale operation – and it was starting to show cracks. Already reacting 24/7 to reports of bugs in his game and the usual players’ complaints on Discord, our customer was starting to get swamped with juggling infrastructure breakdowns, fighting off attacks, orchestrating servers, and authenticating players.
He just wanted to be a game-dev making the game as enjoyable as possible for his players. Instead, he ended up spending nights building boiler-plate code. Sure, there are powerful backend-as-a-service solutions out there, but for his indie mobile game, they were overkill—too complex, too expensive, and too time-consuming to integrate and maintain. With the authentication integrations in place, we added the final missing piece for our customer to eliminate the backend entirely.
Pick your suppliers, we integrate the stack
What can this mean for you? You can pick your favorite stack from our large number of providers for hosting (like via our friends at Hathora), auth, backends, and other services. Idem manages the connection to your game clients and interacts with your service providers —while delivering our cutting-edge matchmaking. Want to quickly try some other service? No problem, it is plug&play. All this helps you to avoid vendor lock-in and to focus your energy on what really matters: the game.
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Curious how Idem could help simplify your game? Happy to have a chat. Send us a message on our Discord or an email to match@idem.gg. And stay tuned for the next updates — more integrations are coming soon.
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