I’ve been accepted into the dimeRocker beta. dimeRocker is the new Unity-Social Media solution from Overinteractive Media Inc. This is still heavily under development (many of the very powerful features won’t be available for months), but it’s difficult not to get excited about what dimeRocker means for the indie dev community. It’s amusing that the engine dimeRocker supposts is Unity, because this solution is all about unifying your audience, over multiple social networks.
Okay, enough with the buzz-words! What IS dimeRocker what does it offer? Let’s say you have a game, ready for web deployment. You want to put your game on Facebook, mySpace, etc. Each of these sites, however, have their own APIs which you need to learn and adapt for. dimeRocker takes care of this for you.
Leaderboards, micro-transactions, achievements, advertising, persistence, scalable cloud hosting, and more. It’s control of your application over multiple social networks through one control panel.
Now, any of the features which dimeRocker provides can be accomplished on your own, given enough time and expertise (especially when it comes to the security required for some of these), but the fact that they’re all available for your game and all you have to do is upload it to dimeRocker, is priceless because of the countless hours (and stress) you avoid spending.