{"id":109693,"date":"2016-11-02T08:45:59","date_gmt":"2016-11-02T06:45:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=109693"},"modified":"2016-11-02T08:46:42","modified_gmt":"2016-11-02T06:46:42","slug":"facebook-gameroom-to-take-on-steam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/109693-facebook-gameroom-to-take-on-steam","title":{"rendered":"Facebook Gameroom to take on Steam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook has published more details about its <a href=\"https:\/\/developers.facebook.com\/docs\/games\/gameroom\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Facebook Gameroom project<\/strong><\/a>, which many see as a Steam competitor.<\/p>\n<p>Facebook Gameroom for PC gaming (Arcade project) is a Windows-native client available as a free download for players.<\/p>\n<p>Within the Facebook Gameroom, players can experience both web games and native games built for the platform.<\/p>\n<p>Building native games for Facebook Gameroom brings many benefits, said Facebook, including:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Gameroom\u00a0focusses on gameplay for players, ensuring an exclusive and immersive gaming experience.<\/li>\n<li>Developing in Gameroom natively takes less time: it\u2019s easier compared to HTML5 and gives better solutions around threading, debugging, networking, and memory management.<\/li>\n<li>Gameroom provides better performance in terms of app launch timings and memory consumption in native games.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The video below provides more information on how to integrate a Unity game with Facebook Gameroom.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/video.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2FFacebookforDevelopers%2Fvideos%2F10154078798288553%2F&amp;show_text=0&amp;width=560\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em>This article first appeared on <a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/gaming\/185496-facebook-gameroom-for-pc-gaming-the-details.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>MyBroadband<\/strong> <\/a>and is republished with permission.<\/em><\/p>\n<h4><strong>Now read:\u00a0<a title=\"Permalink to Steam bans misleading screenshots from store pages\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/109689-steam-bans-misleading-screenshots-from-store-pages.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Steam bans misleading screenshots from store pages<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook&#8217;s Gameroom project is set to compete directly with Steam.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":173,"featured_media":101568,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[31,199,23119,85],"class_list":["post-109693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pc","tag-active","tag-facebook","tag-gameroom","tag-steam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/173"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109693"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109693\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":109695,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109693\/revisions\/109695"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/101568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}