Changelog

Rivet CLI Installation Update

We've updated the installation process for the @rivet-gg/cli package, making it easier than ever to get started with Rivet. This update ensures a seamless setup process whether you're using npx or installing globally via npm.

Updates

• Improved installation process for @rivet-gg/cli
• Streamlined global installation via npm i -g @rivet-gg/cli

How to Upgrade

If you installed the CLI previously, you can update it with:

npm i -g @rivet-gg/cli

For one-time usage, you can always use:

npx @rivet-gg/cli@latest

BetterStack Monitoring Integration

We're excited to announce a new integration with BetterStack, providing comprehensive monitoring, logging, and uptime tracking for your Rivet Actors. This integration makes it easier than ever to monitor performance, collect logs, and set up alerts for your applications.

Key Features

• Comprehensive Monitoring: Track CPU, memory, and network usage for your Actors
• Centralized Logging: Collect and analyze logs from all your Actors in one place
• Custom Dashboards: Create tailored dashboards to visualize performance metrics by lobby ID
• Real-time Alerts: Set up notifications for critical events or performance thresholds
• Easy Setup: Simple configuration with Vector as a log collector and metrics shipper

Getting Started

To get started with BetterStack monitoring for your Rivet Actors:

1. Create a BetterStack account
2. Configure your project with Vector
3. Deploy your Actor with BetterStack credentials

For detailed setup instructions, check out our BetterStack integration documentation.

Example Dashboards

With this integration, you can create powerful custom dashboards to monitor your Actors:

• CPU usage by lobby ID
• Memory usage comparison between lobbies
• Network bandwidth utilization
• Error rate tracking

Availability

This integration is available now for all Docker Actors. Note that this feature is not available for non-Docker Actors at this time.

For questions or support with the BetterStack integration, join us on Discord or reach out to our support team.

Usage-Based Pricing Update

Today we're excited to announce updates to Rivet's pricing model, moving to a more transparent and flexible usage-based system. This change allows developers to better scale their applications while only paying for what they use.

Key Changes

• Pay-as-you-go Model: Only pay for the resources your actors actually consume down to the millisecond
• Simplified Metrics: Clear pricing based on:
  • Runtime
  • Bandwidth
  • Storage
• Free Tier: Generous free tier for developers and small projects with $5/monthly credit
• No upfront commitments: Scale up or down as needed

Pricing Details

Our new pricing structure is designed to be straightforward and predictable:

• Compute: Actors come with 128MB of memory and cost $0.00000000163/millisecond or $4.29/month
• Bandwidth: 10GB for each Actor pooled, $0.05/GB thereafter
• Storage: 1GB + $0.20/GB month
• Storage Writes: 1M + $1.00/million
• Storage Reads: 1M + $0.20/million

For more details about our pricing, visit our pricing page.

Questions?

If you have any questions about the new pricing model, feel free to reach out to us on Discord or support.

Rivet Inspector Launch

Today we are launching Rivet Actor Inspector to help developers view and inspect Rivet Actors. See and edit things like:

• State
• Logs
• Configuration
• Connections

Rivet Actors Launch

Today we are launching Rivet Actors to help developers build and scale realtime applications. They come with a lot of features like:

• State
• Events
• Remote Procedure Calls
• Run at the edge
• Open-source
• Self-hostable

Learn more: Rivet Actors Documentation

Modules Library Launch

Today we are launching the Modules Library to add features to your game or existing backend.

• Modular design to pick and choose features without full adoption.
• Each module includes high-quality & well-documented SDKs for Godot, Unity, and TypeScript.
• Write and share your own modules with the community.

Check them out: https://rivet.gg/modules

Godot editor plugin no longer requires sign in, plus template improvements

Godot plugin 2.3.0 comes with a handful of improvements for developers setting up a fresh Rivet project.

• No longer required to sign in to plugin
• Latest game version is pulled from the Rivet Builds API using the current tag (previously would use the most recent build deployed from the current machine)
• Template now includes a region selector
• Template now shows: status, transport, lobby ID, lobby tags, & find error
• Setup now shows loading indicator while initial SDK is generating

Godot plugin now features a simplified Develop tab and an easier to navigate plugin UI

With our v2.2.0 release of the Godot plugin, we've focused on building the most intuitive multiplayer experience possible:

• A new Develop tab that merges in the old Deploy tab in to one.
• The Develop tab is vastly more intuitive to use by better indicating how the selected environment impacts Play & Deploy.
• We've also reworked how the plugin interfaces with the Rivet Hub by providing links inline to jump to places like the Server Logs and Build List right where you need it.
• You'll also notice we've put the hub & docs links in a much more accessible location.

In addition to that, we've overhauled a number of internal functionality to run fast & reliably across all platforms.

Rivet Editor & Rivet Modules integrated deeply with the plugins, plus auto-generated SDKs

The Rivet Godot plugin v2.1.0 includes:

• Rivet Editor which allows for easy customizatin of Rivet Modules.
• A new Modules tab that lista all installed modules for easy access to documentation & customization.
• Drastically simplified the setup experience by removing the need to manually generate the Rivet SDK. It's now generated automatically when you change the Rivet config.

Godot plugin now supports local development, Rivet Modules, Setup tab, and refreshed UI

The Rivet Godot plugin v2.0.0 features a fully revamped plugin experience:

• Develop locally without complicated environment switching between remote & local.
• Get started with the setup tab to get your game running & deployed in under a minute.
• Rivet Modules are available in the engine itself.
• Use the RivetMultiplayerManager class to easily set your multipayer game with a fraction of the code.
• Features a completely rewritten UI to navigate Rivet's multiplayer functionality more fluidly.

Polished CLI, new API libraries, and more

New JavaScript/TypeScript API library, published OpenAPI spec, published new CLI, cloud version configs are now easier to write with game mode

Added

• New JavaScript/TypeScript API library
• Published Rivet OpenAPI specification
• Published new CLI with simple setup with rivet init and simple deploying with rivet deploy
• Cloud version configs are now easier to write with game mode- & matchmaker-level overrides for properties
• Cloud tokens can be programmatically created through the device linking API

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Changed

• Hub URL moved to hub.rivet.gg

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Fixed

• Job logs would sometimes not load
• Occasional "game mode not unique" error when writing game mode config

Resizing & compression for user images

Avatars are automatically compressed and resized to improve load times, parameters can now be passed to the avatar request to specify custom sizes

Identities

Added

• Avatars are automatically compressed and resized to improve load times
• Parameters can now be passed to the avatar request to specify custom sizes

Changed

• Increase max user avatar, game logo, and game banner upload sizes

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Developer Dashboard

Changed

• Updated recommend game logo and banner image sizes

Colyseus Arena End of Life: Migrating to Rivet & Official Colyseus Plugin

Colyseus Arena was shut down on March 31st. Use the new Rivet plugin to seamlessly migrate to Rivet.

Sadly, Colyseus Arena was shut down with 48 hours notice to developers. (Deadline of March 31st.) For those that aren't familiar, Colyseus Arena was a managed hosting service for the open source Colyseus JavaScript multiplayer framework.

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Colyseus Arena has a lot of rich multiplayer games running on it, so we threw together an official Rivet plugin for Colyseus developers to keep their games up and running.

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The Rivet plugins for Colyseus are linked below:

• Rivet + Colyseus Server Plugin
• Rivet + Colyseus Client
• Rivet + Colyseus Example Project

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If you are migrating a game to Rivet, please join our Discord so we can help you accelerate the process!

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We hope that people continue to build games with the open source Colyseus framework in the future and that Rivet helps keep building multiplayer games accessible.

• Updated February 7th 2024: Removed information about closed beta. Rivet is now open to the public!

Custom domain SSL, more captchas, friend requests, and more

Custom SSL certificates is now provided for custom domains, Cloudflare Turnstile can now be used for matchmaker captcha, registration emails sent to users now match the style of the game they're coming from

Matchmaker

Added

• Cloudflare Turnstile can now be used for matchmaker captchas which can be faster and more accurate than Hcaptcha
• Matchmaker endpoints will mock the configured regions with fake servers when using development tokens

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CDN

Added

• Custom SSL certificates and automatic DDoS protection is now provided for custom domains
• Custom domains now require a verification process

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Identities

Added

• Registration emails sent to users now match the style of the game they're coming from
• Recent followers endpoint shows identities who recently followed the current identity, useful for building a "friend request" system
• Identity followers and following can be listed
• Identity profiles include follower and following count

Changed

• Searching for users is now blazing fast

Fixed

• Users now go offline within 60 seconds if the client does not explicitly change the status when the user leave
• Improved performance of identity-related GET endpoints
• Identities sometimes wrongly showed as following the current identity

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Groups

Added

• Identities can be kicked from groups
• Identities can  be banned from groups
• Group join requests can be listed from a separate endpoint with pagination
• Group members can be listed from a separate endpoint with pagination

Changed

• Searching for groups is now blazing fast

Deprecated

• rivet.group#GroupProfile$join_requests
• rivet.group#GroupProfile$members

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Developer Dashboard

Added

• Versions are now grouped in to folders by month

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Misc

Changed

• Improved upload speeds for uploads with 10,000+ files, such as large CDN sites

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