Quickly connect DIRECT GVR to your build process and eliminate time spent managing multiple tools, scripts, infrastructure, and the build release library for your online game or VR experience. A single script easily integrates DIRECT GVR with the existing build process and moves the last-mile of the pipeline to the Amazon Web Services cloud. Using our API, you can manage and control the orchestration of your game deployment pipeline any way you want.
Accelerate Your Game Deployment Pipeline
Get updated content out and players into the game faster.
Everything You Need
Get up and running fast!
DIRECT GVR last-mile deployment provides everything you need to quickly get your game or VR/AR application from your build servers to your team, partners and players:
Made For Game Engines
Create a progressive onboarding experience to get your players into the game fast!
DIRECT GVR is designed to specifically address the challenges of deploying game and XR applications made with game engine middleware. It is game engine agnostic and supports most commercial, open source, and proprietary engines. Some of the most popular game engines used by our customers are Cryengine, Lumberyard, Unity, and Unreal Engine.
The DIRECT Workflow API works with Unreal Engine 4, Amazon Lumberyard, and Unity 5 to create a progressive onboarding experience that significantly reduces the time it takes for both new and returning players to get into the game.
Get Players Into The Game Fast
Remove friction and increase player acquisition and retention.
Progressive Onboarding
Get your players into gameplay fast using the DIRECT GVR game engine integration with Unreal Engine 5, Amazon Lumberyard, and Unity 5 game engines. Typical game deployment processes require the availability of all game assets locally before gameplay can begin, which can lead to long wait times for both the initial game installation as well as returning player updates. The DIRECT GVR game engine integration only requires a minimum subset of content to be available before a player can enter the game, allowing game designers the ability to create a unique onboarding experience using the game engine’s authoring tools, which will significantly reduce wait times for new and returning players. The DIRECT GVR progressive onboarding capability uses independent pipelines to manage the deployment of game content to the player’s system from within the game engine. The Workflow API simplifies development by allowing an implementer to create and chain discrete, predefined system tasks using JSON without the need to write expansive functions.
Benefits of DIRECT GVR:
- API-driven build system integration that automates deployment and branch promotion of new builds throughout the last-mile pipeline.
- Byte-level differences for efficient data transfer during repository synchronizations.
- Event data streaming that provides continuous insight into the acquisition funnel and operational health of the deployment pipeline.
Put an End to Version Fragmentation
DIRECT GVR solves the version fragmentation problem by quickly generating all necessary update paths and automatically utilizing AWS’s massively parallel computing resources. As a result, existing players spend more time playing and less time updating their games, while new players automatically receive the latest version providing the fastest path to gameplay.
Increase Player Acquisition
Control the game acquisition experience. As soon as your players click the ‘download’ button, our integrated web installer will kick off the unified experience while removing friction points along the way so you can reduce abandonment and increase player acquisition. Improve your players’ game acquisition experience with:
- Quick initial install with our integrated web installer. No need for a generic installer.
- High-speed download of prereqs and game content.
- Support for multi-stage game installation.
- Progressive Onboarding.
- Fast sync to the latest version, no more patch/apply phase.
- Fault-tolerant design.
- Automatic error recovery.
- Redundant delivery networks.
Release Automation
Forget about game patching and all of the hassles that come with version fragmentation. The updating process will never be the same with the DIRECT GVR release automation workflow.
Real-Time, Actionable Analytics
Be in the know.
All information has an expiration date. That is why we provide real-time analytics for our customers so you can make critical business decisions on the fly.
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FUNNEL ANALYTICS
Find out where players drop off so you can identify opportunities to increase conversion rates.
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RETENTION
See what players are coming back for updates, new games, etc.
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GEOGRAPHIC REPORTING
Get a global view of your download activity
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EXPORT
Export reports into your own system or business intelligence solution, or you can stream real-time data directly to your data warehouse for full control.
Features
The DIRECT GVR is a full-features game deployment solution. Check out some of the available features below, and contact us to set up a free evaluation.
Download Management User Controls: Provide options to choose save locations and pause, resume, or cancel a download, along with real-time performance on throughput and write speed.
Guaranteed Data Integrity: Every byte is validated using a secure hash algorithm to ensure it exactly matches data in the master repository.
Automatic Error Recovery: Internet errors from HTTPs, DNS, faulty routers, and dropped packets are automatically remediated without end-user interruption.
Multiple Data Repositories: Specify any number of repositories per release for flexibility in how and when new file packages are deployed and updated.
High-Performance Multi-threaded Downloads: Multiple simultaneous HTTP and I/O threads parallelize download and write operations to minimize download and update times.
Data Compression: Data is compressed on ingest and decompressed on the fly during the download to achieve data transfer savings of 5-40% and reduce download times to target systems.
Byte Level Delta Updates (Cloud): Reduce update times and CDN usage with RFC 3284 compliant delta updates generated quickly and automatically using AWS compute.
CDN Optimized Data Format: Files and packages are transformed into a file format that is optimized for the fastest delivery via CDN and eliminates CDN propagation errors.
CDN Token Authentication: Protect content on the CDN from unauthorized access by securing content URLs.
HTTPS Data Delivery: Deliver data securely over HTTPS with a global CDN.
Geo-IP Blocking: Restrict access to URLs from specific geo locations by IP address.
Custom EULA: Require acceptance of your EULA prior to an application download or update.
Installer Functions: Check and download pre-requisites, create shortcuts and icons, read and create registry settings, and more…
Auto-Launch Applications: Set the client to launch your application upon completion automatically.
User Authentication: Require username and password before initiating an install, download, or automatic update.
Custom JSON Workflows: Use the Workflow Engine to implement a chain of pre-defined system tasks using JSON.
Build System Integration: Pre-configure deployment scripts are provided for easy integration with your build system.
Automated Deployments via RESTful API: Automate deployments with our deployment scripts and API.
Manage Deployments Across Environments: Easily promote releases across Development, QA, Stage, and Live environments.
Delegated Promotion Authority: Specify only authorized users that are premissioned to promote releases from one environment to another.
Centrally Managed Deployments: Manage release deployments to target systems without requiring end-user interaction.
Funnel Reporting: View Deployment data as an acquisition funnel showing completion and abandonment rates and where users are dropping out of the funnel.
LiveOps Monitoring: Live operation data shows the health of ongoing deployments.
Data Export: Send data to Mixpanel, Keen, AWS Firehose, or S3 for import into other BI solutions.
Custom Data Collection: Add customer events for inclusion into the deployment data set.
Branded UI: White label UI template uses your branding.
Localization: Localize client UI messaging into any language.
Custom UI: Create a completely unique UI look and feel using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
Social Integrations: Allow end-user logins using Facebook, Google, and more.
Single Sign-on: Integrate with OAuth2 identity provider system for SSO and user administration.
eCommerce: Integrate with shopping cart checkout for dynamic payload insertion.
Entitlement: Entitle client end-users to specific releases and/or environments.