INTRODUCING ODIN SDK
Real-time messaging for your apps, games and websites
Create cross-platform text chat experiences. Between users, employees, and bots.
Made for developers
In just a few lines of code you can implement a real-time voice chat into games, apps, and websites. Users can also chat cross-platform. See the full list of our SDKs here.
import { OdinClient } from '@4players/odin';
import { TokenGenerator } from "@4players/odin-tokens";
// Prepare the token to connect
const generator = new TokenGenerator(apiKey);
const token = generator.createToken("My Room", "John Doe");
const odinRoom = await OdinClient.initRoom(token);
// Handle events for new peers joining the room
odinRoom.addEventListener('MessageReceived', (event) => {
console.log(`Received message ${event.payload.messsage}`);
});
// Connect the room
await odinRoom.join();
// Send a message to other clients
const data = {
sender: "John Doe",
senderId: "abcdef123456",
message: "Hello world!"
};
const encoder = new TextEncoder();
await odinRoom.sendMessage(encoder.encode(JSON.stringify(data)));
Use the SendMessage function available in all our SDKs to send messages to all or specific clients connected to the same room.
Our SDK is very flexible and lets you design your own protocol very easily and fits into your existing data structures without converting back and forth all the time.
As messages are just a series of bytes in our ecosystem, text-messages can also contain binary data like images.
import { OdinClient } from '@4players/odin';
import { TokenGenerator } from "@4players/odin-tokens";
// Prepare the token to connect
const generator = new TokenGenerator(apiKey);
const token = generator.createToken("My Room", "John Doe");
const odinRoom = await OdinClient.initRoom(token);
// Handle events for new peers joining the room
odinRoom.addEventListener('UserDataChanged', (event) => {
// Update the chat
renderChat(event.payload.room.data)
});
// Connect the room
await odinRoom.join();
// Send a message to other clients
const data = {
messages: []
};
const onSendButtonPressed = async function(message: Message) {
data.messages.push(message);
const encoder = new TextEncoder();
odinRoom.data = encoder.encode(JSON.stringify(data));
await odinRoom.update();
}
In all our SDKs, every Room has a UserData property that can be used to store arbitrary data. You can store the history of your chat in this property and our servers will make sure they are synced in real-time to all clients.
Instead of sending messages, add to or modify a message within the Room data array and the message will be synced - to all clients. This way, clients that connect later have access to the whole chat trail.
The SDKs automatically optimize bandwidth usage by only sending and processing changed bytes. Just update the room data as often as you like and use the Update function to update them on the servers. The callback UserDataChanged gets the whole user data. There is no requirement on your side to process that data.
Implement chat bots with ease
Use our NPM package to implement a real-time chatbot responding to your users automatically.
You can create a simple JavaScript NodeJS script based on our @4players/odin npm package to connect to a room and listen to incoming messages. If an incoming message is of interest to your bot, use natural language processing to create an action!
Once the action has been processed, send back a message to a designated user or all users. This way, you can easily create chat bots working in real-time.
Next-Gen solutions for your business
Our technology has been battle-tested in gaming - the toughest environment imaginable for real-time applications and services. Leverage our know-how and expertise today! Learn more how our products and services empower your business.
Pricing
Leverage the global reach of the 4Players Cloud, spanning over 14 locations worldwide. Our intelligent SDK optimizes user experience by auto-selecting the prime location for connectivity.
- Ideal for evaluation and development
- Up to 25 PCUs
- Unity and Unreal Engine Plugins
- Web and mobile SDKs
- Documentation, Samples and AI Bot
- No registration required
- 100 peak concurrent users included
- 0,29 EUR per additional peak concurrent user
- Traffic included
- Hosting included
- Unity and Unreal Engine Plugins
- Web and mobile SDKs
- Documentation, Samples and AI Bot
What is Peak Concurrent User (PCU) ?
Concurrent Users (CU) denotes the total number of users actively connected to the ODIN servers at any given moment, while Peak Concurrent Users (PCU) represents the zenith of this count over a monthly duration. With ODIN’s advanced dashboard, enterprises can monitor real-time user engagement and even set constraints on the peak value, ensuring consistent budget management and optimal server resource utilization.
Requiring a Custom Pricing Structure?
Should our standard pricing model not align with your enterprise’s unique requirements, we invite you to reach out. Our team is committed to crafting tailored proposals that seamlessly match your needs.
Download the ODIN server and gateway tools to seamlessly deploy ODIN servers at your preferred locations.
- Perfect for high-security sectors: military, healthcare
- Internet connection optional
- 12 months software updates included
- Windows, Linux, macOS support
- On-premise, AWS, Google Cloud, Azure, and more
- Horizontally scalable
- Community Support via Discord
- Documentation, Samples and AI Bot
- Ideal for custom deployments on your infrastructure
- Internet connection required
- Access to latest server downloads
- Windows, Linux, macOS support
- On-premise, AWS, Google Cloud, Azure, and more
- 1.000 concurrent users per instance (more on request)
- Horizontally scalable
- Community Support via Discord
- Documentation, Samples and AI Bot
Requiring a Custom Pricing Structure?
Should our standard pricing model not align with your enterprise’s unique requirements, we invite you to reach out. Our team is committed to crafting tailored proposals that seamlessly match your needs.
Next-generation technology
Most existing voice-chat solutions rely on WebRTC, which has been designed primarily for P2P connections between browsers and is optimized for continuous media streaming… but voice is discontinuous by nature.
ODIN is developed from scratch based on HTTP/3 and QUIC with nearly zero dependencies allowing us to deliver excellent voice quality seamlessly embedded into your game engine.
Hosted by us or host yourself
We love gaming! We are gamers! We know that real-time communication is essential for a fun and immersive gaming experience. This is why our new and innovative voice chat adds another layer of realism to any game or any other virtual interaction, elevating regular voice from chatter to a true communication feature.
With our Voice SDK, we provide a complete out-of-the-box solution that has been designed and built from the ground up for gamers, developers and publishers: flexible, feature-rich and cross-platform.
Reduce development time by leveraging our best-in-class technology to deliver seamless in-app communication.
4Players has more than 20 years of experience hosting game and voice servers for gamers. You can trust in us that we provide the highest quality of service for you and your players.
If you want to be in charge, no worries, we got you covered. Our servers can be easily hosted everywhere. Contact us for more information about self-hosting.