Games Developer Center

Make your game a success on any platform — iOS, Android, or Facebook.com

	Games Overview Quickly integrate Facebook Games APIs.
	API Migration Guide Upgrade your title to the latest version of the Facebook platform.

Discovery

Find More Players

Use App Ads for Installs to drive traffic to your game and find more players.

Helping Your Games Get Discovered

Millions play games on Facebook.com and Facebook-connected mobile games. Facebook will help you get discovered by the right people.

App Center for Games

Submit your app for listing in the App Center to enable over one billion people to find your game.

Cross Promotion

Learn how to use the Business Manager and Business Mapping APIs to enable cross-promotion between titles on Facebook.

Distribution

Learn about the various social channels available to help you grow your game, and best practices to make them effective.

Requests

Requests are a private and direct communication between two players.

Notifications

Notifications allow you to send short, free-form messages to users of your game.

Sharing

Sharing is an important part of Facebook Platform and vital to ensure your games' organic distribution.

Open Graph

Open Graph allows you to share structured information about players' gaming activity.

App & Game Groups

Organize your players into clans, alliances or teams using Facebook Groups.

Cross Platform

Learn how to leverage Facebook's ubiquitous presence across multiple platforms.

Monetization

Monetize Your Game

Monetize your game with Facebook's Audience Network.

Facebook Payments

Turn players into payers by leveraging Facebook's fast and flexible payments solution.

Payments Overview

Price virtual goods internationally for a global audience, improve the checkout experience for users and efficiently handle payment via mobile.

Gift Cards

Enable direct redemption of Facebook Gift Cards into game currency or items.

Best Practices

Learn proven tips and techniques to better implement payments and monetize your game, in order to drive long term value for your business.

Subscriptions

Establish a recurring revenue stream by offering weekly or monthly subscriptions plus support for an optional free trial period.

Development

Build cross-platform 3D games on Facebook rapidly and easily with the Facebook SDK for Unity. The Unity engine and ecosystem gives developers a world class technology platform from which they can build games that work seamlessly across multiple platforms quickly and effectively.

Cocos2d-x with Facebook

Build cross-platform 2D games on Facebook with Cocos2d-x and Cocos2d-JS and enjoy easy integration with built-in support for Facebook's platform features. Share a single code base and integrate with Facebook without importing additional frameworks or SDKs.

Getting Started with Unity

This document provides an step-by-step guide to get started with the Facebook SDK for Unity.

Unity SDK Reference

This document provides the API details for the Facebook SDK for Unity.

Unity Games Tutorial

Learn how to integrate the Facebook SDK for Unity into your Unity Web Player game.

Mobile to Canvas Porting Guide

Cocos2d-x and Unity both make it easy to bring a mobile game to Facebook Canvas, but mobile and Web games have some key differences that you should keep in mind when development. This document provides a high level overview of the things you may need to consider when porting a game from a mobile platform to Facebook Canvas.

Tutorials

Friend Smash

Fully featured, open source Facebook sample game. Learn how to build, grow and cross-promote a game that is social by design.

Canvas Game Tutorial

This tutorial will show you how to implement Facebook's key social technologies into an existing game on the web.

iOS Game Tutorial

Using Xcode, Objective-C and C++, learn how to implement Facebook's SDK for iOS into a game for iPhone and iPad.

Android Game Tutorial

Built natively in Eclipse using Java, learn how to implement Facebook's SDK for Android from the ground up.