¶ heyVR for developers
Are you a webXR developer or game studio wanting to share their work with the world? Look no further and start publishing on heyVR today!
When publishing your games on heyVR you tap into a rapidly growing pool of players in search of high quality, browser-based virtual reality (VR) games.
And you receive direct access to all exclusive features & support heyVR provides:
- Free, Fast & Reliable Hosting
- Full GDPR Compliance
- Public Developer Profile & Showcase
- Dedicated Developer Area
- Secure User Account Management
- Essential Game APIs
- Arena: advanced Matchmaking & Multiplayer System
- Comprehensive Monetization Options
- Detailed Game Analytics
- Extensive Traffic and Promotional Support
- And A Great Community of other talented developers like yourself!
To get started as a developer, head over to the Developer Area and follow the instruction on how to upgrade from a user to a developer account.
¶ Hosting Solutions
All of the published games will be hosted on our dedicated servers, absolutely free of charge. You won't have to worry about hosting, server management, uptime and so on. Leave that to us 
- Consistently reliable with an uptime of over 99.99%.
- High-speed delivery, offering unparalleled service compared to industry giants such as Cloudflare.
- Global reach, ensuring smooth gameplay experiences around the world!
¶ GDPR Compliance
The platform is designed to fully adhere to the 'General Data Protection Regulation' 2016/679 (GDPR) guidelines, as is required for any agent operating in the EU and EEA.
GDPR violation fines typically amount to €1,000-€10,000.
Source: https://www.enforcementtracker.com/
¶ Profile & Showcase
Each developer can create a publicly visible profile after registration. Your games will appear on your profile, alongside a custom description and all the links to your social media and personal website.
¶ Developer Area
On heyVR users have the option to upgrade their standard account to a developer account.
Developer accounts give direct access to the heyVR Developer Dashboard, which is used to create new game projects. As well as test, manage and submit game builds for publication.
It also provides a simple and user friendly way to interact with certain SDK functions, view valuable (in-)game analytics (coming soon) and keep a close tab on in-game sales (coming soon).
¶ User Management
Our platform includes a complete user management system, where users can register an account which is also available to the games they play.
- Secure data storage with full GDPR compliance.
- Advanced account management system with promotional capabilities.
- Point of Contact (POC) for user support, reducing developer's support load.
This system will be used for the next features that we are about to explain.
¶ Essential Game APIs
The following is a short summary of the essential game APIs heyVR offers developers:
¶ Leaderboard Management
We provide a comprehensive leaderboard/highscore management system that allows you to define custom leaderboards for your games to store players' highscores. This encourages players to push their skills on your games.
For a detailed documentation of our leaderboard system, you can head over to our SDK Documentation for leaderboards.
¶ Savegame System
Does your game require a save system? All you need to do is to use our SDK to save the game data, which will be tied to a user's account and accessible throughout all of the user's devices.
For a detailed documentation of our Safegame system, you can head over to our SDK Documentation for Savegame.
¶ In-game Inventory
The Inventory API enables developers to introduce, manage and access items for their games and allows players to unlock and/or purchase these items.
You can create custom items for your games, sell it via a price or grant it to the player as an achievement for free.
For a detailed documentation of our inventory management system, you can head over to our SDK Documentation for inventory.
¶ Matchmaking & Multiplayer
We offer dedicated matchmaking and multiplayer systems for developers to integrate in their games. Through our system you can create custom rooms for each games so that the users can play together.
You can even define custom teams for PvP game rooms, set maximum player count and more.
We also offer a communication and moderation system via our multiplayer. Players are able to communicate together as a team or via the public all-chat and admins will be able to moderate their teams and lobby.
This will allow you to push your multiplayer games to its desired limits.
- Compatibility with any multiplayer backend for seamless matchmaking.
- P2P systems integration to eliminate code-based joining.
For a detailed documentation of our multiplayer system, you can head over to our SDK Documentation for multiplayer.
¶ Monetization
Our Inventory system makes it possible for developers to introduce a broad spectrum of purchasable items to their games:
- cosmetics (e.g. skins) and time-based power-ups (e.g. health potions).
- unlockable achievements and temporary (or recurring) game access (e.g. season passes or subscriptions).
- general game content (e.g. additional maps or DLCs).
- and more!
We also offer additional infrastructure support for implementing your unique monetization strategies.
All in-game transactions are made via our coin system, so you don't have to worry about managing the actual payment. You can keep track of sales through the Sales tab featured on the Developer Dashboard, and will receive proceeds from coin transactions paid out directly to your bank account at the end of each month.
Under our revenue share model, developers can expect to receive 100% net profit on sales up to $250 per month, per game - after which a 30% divvy is applied that gets allocated towards the continued development and improvement of the heyVR platform.
Every country and every US state has different laws and requirements regarding sales tax. Tools like Stripe Tax help with tracking the requirements, but registering and filing the taxes incurs significant fix-costs plus transactional fees. By taking care of all necessary value-added tax (VAT) procedures, heyVR also relieves developers from the stress of tracking and managing VAT compliance themselves.
For further details on monetization, you can head over to our Monetization Terms of Service.
¶ Game Analytics
Coming Soon
- Thorough user behavior analysis.
- Automated and customizable analytics system.
- Exploratory analytics for in-depth game insights.
- And more!
¶ Promotion & Support
- Opportunities for featuring on Meta New Tab Page (NTP).
- High chances of feature placements on platforms like Pico and Wolvic.
- An additional 40% traffic based on estimates from recent high-performing titles.
- Extensive promotion through all our channels and connections.