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Amazon DynamoDB Getting Started For Game Developers

A very basic client/server implementation in C++ showing how game developers can integrate Amazon DynamoDB calls in to their game server.

Requirements

An AWS account with access to Amazon DynamoDB and Amazon S3: https://aws.amazon.com/getting-started/
Microsoft Visual Studio 2017 or higher (any edition): https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/
The AWS C++ SDK, installation instructions here: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/gametech/game-developers-guide-to-the-aws-sdk/

├── GameServer/         # Game server code as well as the solution file for both server and client projects
├── GameClient/         # Game client code 
└── Common/             # Code shared between game client and server

Set up AWS resources

Create a table in DynamoDB named "PlayerData".
Set the primary key to "PlayerID" and make sure the data type is "string".
Otherwise use default settings.

Build and run the sample

Add the AWS C++ SDK to your project. The Amazon DynamoDB library is required, as well as its dependencies.
Open the solution file GameServer.sln, which contains both the server and client projects.
If you'd created your DynamoDB table in an AWS region other than US East 1, modify the GameServer/Settings.h with the correct region.
Build the server and client projects.
The project is currently configured to allow the client to connect to a locally hosted server, so you can run them on the same machine. If you would like to run them on different machines, you can modify the SERVERADDR variable in GameClient.cpp.

For more information or questions

The steps in this file are condensed from the article found here: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/gametech/
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