There are 2 ways to integrate your game client with the Cardinal game shard.

Nakama SDK (Recommended)

Best way to integrate Cardinal with modern game engines (Unity, Unreal, Godot, etc).

REST API

Great for simple use cases, analytics, or automations.

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Integrate via Nakama SDK (Recommended)

Cardinal comes out of the box with a Nakama plugin that makes it easy for you to integrate with most modern game engine such as Unity, Unreal, Godot, etc.

Additionally, Cardinal’s Nakama plugin utilizes Cardinal’s Persona identity system to provide an account abstraction (AA) feature. By using account abstraction, players can use email/password or social login (Google, Facebook, etc) to play their fully onchain game; therefore, eliminating the crypto/web3 onboarding friction from having to install a wallet or store a private key.

Features:

  • Wide range of client libraries and SDKs — By using Nakama, you can integrate Cardinal with any of the client libraries and SDKs that Nakama supports. This includes Unity, Unreal, Godot, Javascript, Swift, C++, and more.
  • Account abstraction with email/password & social login — Remove onboarding friction of having to download a crypto wallet and manage private keys by allowing your users to login with their email/password or social accounts (Google, Facebook, etc).

Integrating with Nakama? Start here.

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Integrate via REST API

If you need more control over your integration or if you just need a direct way to communicate with Cardinal, you can use Cardinal’s REST API.

Integrating with REST API? Start here.

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