Developing your social game on Windows Azure

If you have thought about developing your own social game (on whatever platform you prefer), you must have thought about the backend services of your app.

It's essential to have a scalable and reliable backend so that your services can cater for any spike in traffic. Afterall, if your social game is slow or has downtime during peak hours, who's gonna play again?

Windows Azure is our platform-as-a-service cloud solution that can host your social gaming backend. (I am not going to bore you with Windows Azure 101, you can visit www.windowsazure.com to find out more).

Anyway. There is an Azure toolkit that can help you with all the heavy-lifting of your backends, such as authentication, starting games, multi-player communication, game state, and
more. You can download it here. If you want to learn more about it, you can watch this video about building a social game with the toolkit on Windows 8.