Google Cloud Platform
Big Fish Games provides access to the Google Cloud Datastore for developers who wish to use its implementation for data services.
The Big Fish network connects directly to Google Cloud through a Virtual Private Cloud, and can transfer large amounts of data to cloud. It provides a flexible environment, and utilizes Kafka and Spark Stream to build a streaming data platform.
Logging onto the Google Cloud Console
To perform basic storage management tasks, you need to log into the Google Cloud console with your Big Fish account:
- Go to the Google Cloud console ↗️.
- Log in using the Gmail account that you provided to your Big Fish Studio Liaison.
- In the top header bar, select the project provided by your Big Fish Studio Liaison.
- Select “bigfishgames.com” as the organization.
- Then, select your project and click Open to load it.
Using Google BigQuery
BigQuery is Google Cloud's fully managed, petabyte-scale, and cost-effective analytics data warehouse that lets you run analytics over vast amounts of data in near real time. To use it, select BigQuery from the side bar.
The BigQuery section displays the dataset(s) for your project. Within the data set, you have access to Authorized views of your game's data.
By default, Big Fish only grants access to BigQuery. If you have use of other Google-based products, work with your Big Fish producer to request access to other Google Cloud Platform tools and services.
Contact your Big Fish producer for additional help with issues you have accessing your data.
For more information, see the following Google documentation: