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Using Remote Play

Remote Play is a high-performance game streaming service of the Hive platform that allows you to play PC games remotely.

Key features

The biggest feature of Remote Play is the Remote Play exclusive web.

Game users can access the web connected to remote play and run games on various devices anytime and anywhere, alleviating the physical inconvenience of having to play games on a single device. Moreover, when wanting to play the same game on devices other than the Host PC, it reduces the hassle of having to install and update the game on each device.

If a game user plays through the remote play-only web, they do not need to restart from the beginning even if they pause in the middle. When the game on the host PC is still running, even if the remote play connected from another device is terminated, starting remote play on a new device allows them to continue the same game.

The remote play-only web can be automatically created by registering with the Hive console.

Remote Play plugin key features

By applying the Hive SDK, you can easily set up a remote play service environment through the integration of the remote play plugin, which can reduce remote play development costs.

Quickly implement the core features of remote play required in games, such as video streaming, audio transmission, and game control, with the Remote Play Plugin Integration.

Note

The SDK version supporting the remote play plugin for Hive is as follows. To integrate the remote play plugin, be sure to apply the corresponding SDK version to each development environment.

The main features provided by the remote play plugin are as follows.

  • Optimized Hardware Encoding: Provides hardware encoding features optimized for the user's PC performance. By maximizing the graphics performance of chips from manufacturers such as Nvidia, AMD, and Intel, users can experience faster and differentiated encoding.

  • Play Information Security: During remote play, the host PC's play information is not exposed due to the blind image, allowing for a secure gaming environment.

    Note

    To change the default provided blind images, please refer to here.

  • Support for horizontal and vertical bi-directional mode: It supports horizontal and vertical bi-directional modes, ensuring that no letterbox appears in any mode and the game's default scaling is maintained.

  • Automatic auto-scaling feature applied: Even if the game screen size differs between the game on the host PC and remote play on other devices, it auto-scales to a fixed resolution and transmits real-time game data.
  • Sound control feature: Even if the volume of the host PC is muted, normal sound reception and control are possible in remote play.


Implementing Remote Play service

This explains the process of launching a PC game with Remote Play.

  1. Remote Play Plugin Integration: Import the Remote Play plugin to apply Remote Play during game development.
  2. Console Settings: Enable Remote Play on the Hive console and register the Remote Play web access link.
  3. Function Verification: Access the registered Remote Play web to verify that the game runs well with Remote Play.
  4. Game App Debugging: Debug to ensure that the Remote Play feature is properly applied to the developed game.
  5. App Build: Build the completed game.
  6. App Distribution: Distribute the game with Remote Play applied to the app market.


Remote Play operation flow

This explains the order in which Remote Play is operated when an actual user plays a game with Remote Play applied.

Remote play operates in parallel on two systems: [Host PC games] on the host PC and [remote play dedicated web] on other devices. The process for the user to execute Remote Play on each system is as follows.

  1. [Remote Play Exclusive Web] Access the remote play exclusive web that has been registered in the Hive console in advance.

  2. [Remote Play Exclusive Web] Log in to the exclusive web with the same account as the game you want to play.

  3. [Remote Play Web Only] Access the Remote Play Settings on the web.

  4. [Remote Play Only Web] Change the Remote Play Settings to ON on the web.

  5. [Host PC Game] Run the game on the host PC that will connect to Remote Play and log in.

  6. [Remote Play Web Only] Click Connect to PC on the web to start remote play.

  7. [Host PC Game] The screen is not exposed with the blind feature.