Frequently Asked Questions (and Answers!)
- What is the Manic Gaming Network?
The Manic Gaming Network is a global gaming platform supporting numerous social gaming features and online multiplayer gaming. - I'm developing games for the iPhone. How can the Manic Gaming Network help me?
- Developers can easily and quickly enhance their single player games with support for online score, rank, and achievement tracking, providing customers with enhanced "stickyness" as the customers will be more inclined to play more to compete for the top scores and ranks
- Developers can add Internet multi-player matching features to their games using our player-matching technology.
- Our service is operational and available now! You can save hundreds of man-hours and potentially many thousands of dollars by not having to re-invent the wheel for your game
- Your game profile will be available on our website which will help to advertise your game to all of our subscribers and to our site visitors.
- Why shouldn't I run my own servers to do all of this?
- High upfront costs for server hardware
- High upfront costs for site and service development
- Ongoing costs to maintain site/server infrastructure
- But I could charge my subscribers a fee to play my game which would cover my costs.
- End-users do not want to pay a monthly fee to play a single game
- It would not make sense to expect end-users to have multiple accounts and subscriptions with every different game developer.
- How much would users really be willing to pay monthly for access to play a single game?
- You may not get sufficient numbers of subscribers willing to pay your monthly fee.
- Do I need to have a multi-player game to use this service?
Not at all! You can enable score and rank tracking in your single player game which will allow players to automatically upload their games scores and ranks to our website upon game completion. - Is there a cost for developers to use this service?
- There is no cost for developers to use the Manic Gaming Network.
- It is 100% free for developers of both single and multi-player games.
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