http://gamua.com/flox The No-Fuzz Game Backend en Fri, 02 Jan 2026 18:28:31 +0100 Fri, 02 Jan 2026 18:28:31 +0100 http://gamua.com/blog/2020/02/flox-data-export/ http://gamua.com/blog/2020/02/flox-data-export/ Mon, 10 Feb 2020 00:00:00 +0100 Daniel As I mentioned in the previous blog post, our no-fuzz backend is sadly reaching the end of its lifetime. Flox will shut down on August 1st, 2020. Some of you are using Flox purely for its simple analytics and logging capabilities. If that’s the case, I just want to assure... http://gamua.com/blog/2019/12/flox-is-phasing-out-a-post-mortem/ http://gamua.com/blog/2019/12/flox-is-phasing-out-a-post-mortem/ Thu, 05 Dec 2019 00:00:00 +0100 Daniel First things first: the reason for this blog post is a major heads-up: I’m going to have to shut down Flox around August 1st, 2020. Yikes. I’m aware that this might mean a major hassle for the remaining users of Flox – depending on how much use you make of... http://gamua.com/blog/2015/03/flox-downtime-due-to-a-glitch-in-google-app-engine/ http://gamua.com/blog/2015/03/flox-downtime-due-to-a-glitch-in-google-app-engine/ Wed, 11 Mar 2015 00:00:00 +0100 Holger As some of you may have noticed, Flox was down for approximately four hours yesterday afternoon (CET). With this blog post, we’d like to give you a quick update on what caused this downtime and how we were able to fix it. In a nutshell, there was a glitch in... http://gamua.com/blog/2014/11/flox-password-login-conflict-handling/ http://gamua.com/blog/2014/11/flox-password-login-conflict-handling/ Fri, 28 Nov 2014 00:00:00 +0100 Daniel Hello guys! It’s been a while since we last updated the Flox client library, so it was high time for an update! This time, we’re adding two features that have been requested several times in the forum. I think we found very elegant solutions for those areas — read on... http://gamua.com/blog/2014/05/tracking-down-bugs-with-flox/ http://gamua.com/blog/2014/05/tracking-down-bugs-with-flox/ Mon, 26 May 2014 00:00:00 +0200 Holger Hello everyone! I am very happy to be finally able to give you access to Flox’s brand new way of tracking down all the errors and exceptions that shoot through your games. I know that many of you have been waiting for this since about forever and I very much... http://gamua.com/blog/2013/12/optimization-time/ http://gamua.com/blog/2013/12/optimization-time/ Mon, 16 Dec 2013 00:00:00 +0100 Holger Hello floxxers! Let me tell you a story: we usually ban everything we want to do, need to do, can’t do right now and all ideas that spark through our heads onto long lists of work items. These lists get sorted, reviewed, reduced, distilled and sometimes forgotten. ;-) Not this... http://gamua.com/blog/2013/11/the-flox-sdk-is-open-source/ http://gamua.com/blog/2013/11/the-flox-sdk-is-open-source/ Fri, 29 Nov 2013 00:00:00 +0100 Holger Hello floxxers! The wait is over: we just open-sourced the Flox SDK! Enjoy our black friday deal! ;-) Philosophical Preamble As you know, Gamua is an open-source company since day one. Actually Sparrow was open-source even before day one. Whatever the exact date, it has always been our philosophy that... http://gamua.com/blog/2013/11/how-to-retrieve-friend-scores/ http://gamua.com/blog/2013/11/how-to-retrieve-friend-scores/ Mon, 18 Nov 2013 00:00:00 +0100 Holger Hello everyone! I was just able to release the new Flox SDK! This version comes with a new feature many of you have been waiting for: Friend leaderboards. Players & Scores You most likely know that Flox allows you to identify your players as well as their data. You most... http://gamua.com/blog/2013/10/how-to-manage-all-of-your-games-data-programmatically/ http://gamua.com/blog/2013/10/how-to-manage-all-of-your-games-data-programmatically/ Tue, 15 Oct 2013 00:00:00 +0200 Holger Hello Floxxers! Only a few days after releasing the well-received team support I am happy to announce another handy feature: As of now Flox allows you to manage your game’s data programmatically. All you have to do is summon a hero! “Uhm, a … what now?” Players Let’s step back... http://gamua.com/blog/2013/10/working-in-teams/ http://gamua.com/blog/2013/10/working-in-teams/ Thu, 10 Oct 2013 00:00:00 +0200 Holger Good news everyone! More often than not games are developed in teams or need to grant access to other users. As you might know, up until now Flox games where accessible on a single-user basis only. However, as of today it is possible to invite others to your game. There,... http://gamua.com/blog/2013/10/flox-10/ http://gamua.com/blog/2013/10/flox-10/ Wed, 02 Oct 2013 00:00:00 +0200 Holger It’s done! Today Flox has left its beta cocoon and became a “1.0”. I can not even begin to describe how happy I am to be able to write this blog post today. To the trained eye I may also happen to appear slightly tipsy later this evening. But before... http://gamua.com/blog/2013/07/how-to-authenticate-players/ http://gamua.com/blog/2013/07/how-to-authenticate-players/ Mon, 15 Jul 2013 00:00:00 +0200 Holger Hello Floxxers! Today I’ll shine a light on Flox player authentication and the login process. Player authentication is one of the most basic parts of the Flox SDK and almost all of you will encounter it in your game development endeavors. As with all things Flox the player login process... http://gamua.com/blog/2013/06/how-to-exclude-properties-from-serialization/ http://gamua.com/blog/2013/06/how-to-exclude-properties-from-serialization/ Wed, 26 Jun 2013 00:00:00 +0200 Holger Hello Floxxers, the new SDK (0.7) is out and it brings a feature many of you have been requesting in the forums. As of now you can selectively exclude properties from being serialized to and deserialized from the Flox servers! To pick you up, I’ll quickly summarize that particular problem:... http://gamua.com/blog/2013/06/key-performance-indicators-and-social-game-metrics/ http://gamua.com/blog/2013/06/key-performance-indicators-and-social-game-metrics/ Tue, 04 Jun 2013 00:00:00 +0200 Holger The latest update for Flox brings a major overhaul to your game analytics: As of now you’re able to see industry-approved key performance metrics or KPIs out-of-the-box and beautifully visualized within the web interface! Which KPIs Are We Talking About? Key Performance indicators are usually used to measure if and... http://gamua.com/blog/2013/04/hello-flox/ http://gamua.com/blog/2013/04/hello-flox/ Fri, 26 Apr 2013 00:00:00 +0200 Holger Today I’m very happy to introduce you to the latest addition to our game-development universe: It’s called Flox and it will make your game-dev endeavours an even greater pleasure than they already are. What Is Flox? I hope you don’t mind me asking a few questions first. ;-) Have you...