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Y8 Developer Portal

Everything outside your game's own code happens in the Y8 Developer Portal — creating a studio and a game, getting the credentials the SDK needs, uploading builds, and submitting for review.

You will spend most of your time in two places:

  • My Games, which lists your games. Open one to edit it; its builds are uploaded on its Builds tab.
  • A game's SDK Initialization tab, which holds the App ID and Game ID your integration needs, and where you register development addresses.

Before you submit a game for review, make sure it meets the Game Requirements. Its Media tab needs screenshots and promotional images. Media Guidelines says what Y8 accepts, with examples. Games requiring external hosting must follow the Iframe Game Hosting requirements.

A game's other tabs — Basic Info, Leaderboard, Achievements, Feedback, and AFP where it applies — cover its details, leaderboard tables, achievements and review messages. The QA tab is not available yet. They are self-explanatory in the portal itself, and it is the authority on what they currently do — this documentation deliberately does not mirror them.

What you need before writing code

  1. An account, and a Studio — see Create a Studio. Every game belongs to one, and you do not need to be a registered company to have one.
  2. A game, created under that studio — see Create a Game.
  3. The App ID and Game ID from the game's SDK Initialization tab — see SDK Initialization.

With those in hand, go to Platforms to install the SDK.