Time to Market

Using a ready-made platform cuts down time to market enormously. Even a non-generic small in-house server will take several man years to complete. Firebase enables game developers to concentrate on making games, the “server” part of the development have already been taken care of.

Development Risk

There is also a very real risk involved in developing a new server solution. It has been estimated that nine out of ten multiplayer game project are never completed. And it is reasonable to assume that much of those failures are because of the server development, not the actual games. By using Firebase, the game transactions, data replication, topology distribution and adoption, system stability, network communication etc. is taken care of. The overall risk of the project is then much more dependent on the actual game, instead of non-functional requirements.

Scalability and High Availability

Firebase is built from ground up to be scalable and to provide high availability. Using Firebase the costs of operating scales with the revenue. Small installations can run on cheap “pizza box” hardware, whereas large multi-million dollar projects can be run on top of the line server clusters – Firebase handles them all.

Maintenance Costs

Costs for maintaining and refining non-functional requirements are extremely hard to calculate and project. When a company is developing everything in-house, what in effect happens is that the company becomes a platform developer shop as well as a game developer. Resources must be shared between functional, game specific, requirements, and non-functional platform requirements. And it is often hard to motivate the costs of such non-functional requirements. For Cubeia Ltd however, developing Firebase is cost-effective and easy to motivate. By using Firebase, you are guaranteed a maintained and well supported platform at all times.

Knowledge

A side benefit of using Firebase is access to the Cubeia Ltd knowledge and industry network. The development team at Cubeia has long experience in the industry, with hands-on knowledge of everything from on-line casinos to established poker networks and skill-based gaming. By using Firebase, you'll get implicit access to all that knowledge and experience.