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Unity + Couchbase Mobile Improve Game Development with Sync and Offline SupportCouchbase, Inc., provider of the most complete NoSQL database, today announced Couchbase Mobile for Unity, making it faster and easier for developers to build video games. Couchbase will demonstrate Couchbase Mobile for Unity at Booth #425 during this week's Game Developer Conference (GDC) in San Francisco. "Game developers are under significant pressure to quickly build and launch the next big blockbuster game - often without the resources they need to meet critical deadlines," said Ravi Mayuram, senior vice president of products and engineering at Couchbase. "Couchbase Mobile makes it easier for game developers to build on the Unity platform, and we are providing them with a technology that can significantly reduce the amount of time spent on writing code to manage and synchronize data." Tweet This: New Couchbase Mobile for Unity simplifies #gamedev. See the #Couchbase demo at #GDC15 http://ctt.ec/7X53C+ Building Games Faster Game developers want to build a successful business by creating multiplatform games and interactive content. They need to focus on providing the best user experience with a fast and efficient go-to-market strategy. Developers can't lose precious development time writing extraneous code to manage data and data synchronization, that's why the Couchbase team built Couchbase Mobile for Unity. With Couchbase Mobile for Unity, game developers can massively reduce coding time with a fully featured, lightweight embedded NoSQL database for the device. When coupled with Couchbase Sync Gateway (News - Alert), game data is securely synchronized between users, multiple devices, across platforms and with the cloud. Using Couchbase Mobile for Unity, game developers can:
"With Couchbase Mobile, developers can easily deliver beautiful apps that work online and offline," said Macy Mills, director of strategic partnerships at Hitcents, the mobile game and app development company behind Tom Hanks' Hanx Writer and Draw a Stickman: EPIC. "Couchbase Mobile for Unity will enable the game development community, including Hitcents, to more easily build multi-platform games and worry less about coding for data management or synchronization. This is a game-changer." Resources:
About Couchbase Couchbase delivers the world's highest performing NoSQL distributed database platform. Developers around the world use the Couchbase platform to build enterprise web, mobile, and IoT applications that support massive data volumes in real time. The Couchbase platform includes Couchbase Server, Couchbase Lite - the first mobile NoSQL database, and Couchbase Sync Gateway. Couchbase is designed for global deployments, with configurable cross data center replication to increase data locality and availability. All Couchbase products are open source projects. Couchbase customers include industry leaders like AOL, AT&T, Bally's, Beats Music, BSkyB, Cisco, Comcast (News - Alert), Concur, Disney, eBay, KDDI, Nordstorm, Neiman Marcus, Orbitz, PayPal, Rakuten / Viber, Tencent, Verizon, Wells Fargo, Willis Group, as well as hundreds of other household names. Couchbase investors include Accel Partners (News - Alert), Adams Street Partners, Ignition Partners, Mayfield Fund, North Bridge Venture Partners, and West Summit.
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