Azure Function

Hosting the IGL Service as an Azure Function is ideal in many circumstances because of its scalability and low cost of hosting. With 1 million free executions a month, most indie games will have zero cost during the initial phases of a new game.

The Echo Service is triggered when a new GameEvent is posted to the Echo Queue.  The service will then publish a new message to the player's PlayerEvents Topic.  The following illustrates the behavior of the Echo Service:

The IGL.Samples project has the files required to host the Echo Service as well as a sample Echo client for testing the service.

While the 1 million free executions lasts, the service will be available to testing while the cost of the IGLBackbone is less than IGL's monthly budget.

The IGLBackbone current status is AVAILABLE.