Guides

Step-by-step tutorials.

Practical walkthroughs for building game features with LootLocker.

Guides
Unity
Drag & Drop Cross-Platform Cloud Saves

Cross-platform cloud saves usually take months to build. Our new Unity prefab drops them in with a single line of code—sync, conflicts, backups, and account linking included.

July 10, 2026
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Unity
Direct-to-Consumer Purchases: Use Stripe to Unlock Your Full Game

Learn how to implement LootLocker's Stripe integration in Unity in order to sell in-game game unlocks, great for Web GL demos.

May 7, 2026
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Unity
Level Up Your Community: How to Reward Players with In-Game Assets via Discord

Learn how to reward Discord community members with in-game assets using LootLocker Squire, Unified Player Accounts, and Triggers. This guide walks through setting up a deep Discord integration so you can launch new rewards without shipping a game update.

April 21, 2026
Guides
Unreal Engine
Supporting Families and Shared Devices: Multiple User Profiles in Your Game with LootLocker

Learn how to support multiple persistent user profiles on a single device using LootLocker’s Multi User support for Unreal and Unity. Perfect for families, roommates, and shared devices.

June 26, 2025
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Unreal Engine
How to Build a Local Co-Op Game Powered by LootLocker

Learn how to create a local co-op game where each player has their own persistent profile, customization, and progress using LootLocker’s new Multi User support for Unreal and Unity.

June 26, 2025
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Unreal Engine
How to Implement Server Authority in Your Multiplayer Game Using LootLocker

Learn how to implement true server authority in your multiplayer game using LootLocker’s Token Exchange feature. Secure your game logic, prevent cheating, and unlock new gameplay possibilities by moving crucial write calls to your server.

June 26, 2025
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Unity
Solving TLS Certificate Issues with LootLocker API in Unity and Unreal Engine

Learn how to resolve TLS certificate errors when connecting to the LootLocker API from Unity or Unreal Engine, especially on older or unpatched systems. This guide covers the Amazon certificate authority rollout and provides a future-proof solution for all platforms.

June 24, 2025
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Unreal Engine
Automate and Moderate: User Impersonation in Your Game Servers using LootLocker

Unlock powerful server-side automation and moderation with User Impersonation in LootLocker. Perform actions for any player, at any time, without an active client session.

June 24, 2025
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Unity
Implementing IAP in Your Android Game: A Step-by-Step Guide for Unity & Unreal

Navigate the complexities of implementing in-app purchases (IAP) in your Android game with this step-by-step guide, using LootLocker’s plug-and-play system to make the process simpler and faster.

September 24, 2024
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Unity
Getting Started With Connected Accounts

Providing players with a way to connect multiple platform accounts together is a great way to improve and secure their game experience. We've made all of this possible with Unified Player Accounts and written these guides to make it seamless to integrate.

February 29, 2024
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Unity
Getting Started with Remote Login

Use LootLocker's Remote Login to quickly and easily add additional authenticating methods to your game, from mobile, to consoles and PC. This guide will walk you through implemeting Remote Login in your Unity game.

February 29, 2024
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Unity
Implement Sign in with Google in your Unity & Unreal Game

Implementing sign in with Google is a common frustration among game developers around the world. Surprisingly, there is little documentation on how to do this - until now. We've taken it into our own hands to make your life easier.

February 29, 2024
Guides
Unity
Game Balancing with Google Sheets and CSV

As a game designer you're often actively balancing your game while players are playing it - either based on player feedback or certain key metrics. In this guide we'll show you two ways LootLocker can be used to balance your game more easily, using a CSV or Google Sheets - all from the cloud!

January 16, 2024
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Unity
3 Ways to Use Our Economy System

Our new Economy system is more than just a way to manage some in-game currencies. It can be used to build robust in-game stores as well as crafting systems and talent trees. This guide will walk you through implementing all three systems in your Unity game.

October 18, 2023
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Unity
Cloud Saves: Use LootLocker Player Files to Store Player Data in the Cloud

Upload files for your game with LootLockers simple Player Files feature. Sync your players progressions, create profile pictures, share data between players with public player files in the cloud.

June 13, 2023
Guides
Unity
Making the most of Progressions

Keeping players engaged and invested in games is crucial for success. One way to achieve this is through a progression system that allows players to level up, earn rewards, or unlock new content.

May 11, 2023
Guides
Unity
How to use LootLocker’s customization complexity in a Unity game

Our customization complexity makes it easy to create different looks for the same asset in your game – like different styles of helmets, armor or uniforms, colored faction emblems, different skins, and so on. Learn how to use them in your Unity game.

January 25, 2023
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Unity
How to add Drop Tables to your Unity game

Create a weighted drop system for your in-game loot with Drop Tables. These can be used for things like gacha systems, rewards from bosses in MMORPGS, and much more! This guide walks you through implementing Drop Tables in a Unity game project.

December 8, 2022
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Unity
How to create item bundles using Asset Packages in Unity

Asset packages are a great way to add multiple types of rewards to your players’ inventories – like a buy-one-get-one-free type deal, or a complete set of armor, for example. You can use them for pretty much anything, e.g. loot in chests, prizes for winning contests, or starting bundles (among other things).

November 1, 2022
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Unity
How to make a skill cooldown system with Rental Assets in Unity

Rental assets are a really easy way to create consumable items for your game that are removed after a set amount of time.

September 28, 2022
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Unity
How to make random weight rewards with Loot Boxes in Unity

Everybody likes a present. And if you want to give your players assets in-game, then loot boxes are the answer. Use them to reward players through purchases, via in-game triggers or by manually gifting them.

September 28, 2022
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Unity
Adding Game Polish: Animating with code to bring your game to life

You're always limited by time when building and shipping a game. With time constraints, adding animation polish might be the last thing that you want to do. Thankfully, it doesn’t always have to be a compromise.

July 18, 2022
Guides
Construct
Setting Up Online Leaderboards in a Construct 3 Game

Let's use LootLocker's REST API to implement online leaderboards in a Construct 3 game project.

June 17, 2022
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Godot
Implementing Online Leaderboards in Your Godot Game Using LootLocker

Learn how to use LootLocker's REST API to add online leaderboards in your Godot game project.

June 10, 2022
Guides
Gdevelop
Adding Online Leaderboards to Your GDevelop Game with LootLocker

This guide explains how to use LootLocker's REST API to implement leaderboards in the GDevelop game engine.

June 10, 2022
Guides
GameMaker
Easy Leaderboard for GameMaker

We've released an extension for GameMaker that makes it super easy to add online leaderboards to your game: we call it Easy Leaderboards by LootLocker!

April 28, 2022
Guides
Energy
How to Create an Energy System (That Can’t Easily be Cheated)

In games, and especially mobile games like Candy Crush or Archero, it’s not uncommon to introduce a mechanic that gates the player to prevent them from running through content too fast. This guide explains how to implement a system like this and how using LootLocker can make it more secure.

March 29, 2022
Guides
Unity
How to Make Flappy Bird with Online Leaderboards

Lets learn how to build Flappy Bird from scratch - but this time we're adding something the original game was missing that we think would've made it more fun: leaderboards!

March 17, 2022
Guides
Unity
Improving Wordle with LootLocker (How to Make Wordle Part 2)

In the first part of our guide, we showed you how to create Wordle in Unity. In part two we'll show you how LootLocker can make the game even better.

February 22, 2022
Guides
Unity
Build Your Own Wordle in Unity (How to Make Wordle Part 1)

Everyone is talking about Wordle right now, but have you ever thought about how to make it in Unity? Well, here is a step by step guide to rebuilding the internet's favorite game!

February 8, 2022
Guides
Unity
How to Install and Configure the LootLocker SDK for Unity

Installing and configuring the LootLocker Unity SDK couldn't be easier. Here's how to do quickly and easily.

December 31, 2021
Guides
Unity
Using LootLocker with Unity

Since LootLocker does not yet have an SDK for Unity, we've prepared an example project showing how to integrate LootLocker in your game using our RESTful API.

May 1, 2020