Core Concepts

LootLocker may introduce some concepts you might not be familiar with. This section will help you understand how everything works together.

If you're looking for a brief description of every LootLocker feature and system, be sure to check out our Glossary.

Players

Your players are one of the most important parts of your game. That's why LootLocker helps you authenticate them in various ways and easily store different types information and data in their profile like their wallet, inventory, progressions and more.

Assets

An Asset is an item of property that can be connected to a player - something a player can earn, purchase, or possess. At its core, an asset is an empty shell looking to be assigned a context and populated with relevant data or information. Before assigning a context to an asset, contexts must be created with complexities and other relevant information.

Character Classes & Heroes

A character class lets you define what contexts are associated with each class and what each class' default loadout comprises of. For some games you may not have any classes and can completely ignore this system. Other games might want to take advantage of both character classes and heroes.

Stage & Live Environments

LootLocker makes it easier and safer to make changes to your game data and configuration stored within the platform. All changes made to your LootLocker data are made in a staging environment that can be tested with your game client before pushing the changes to the live environment.

Web Console

The LootLocker web console is a browser-based interface that provides you with access to all LootLocker features and the tools needed to manage your games. You can access the web console here.

API Types

LootLocker has three different types of APIs (Game, Server, Admin) depending on the needs of your game and development pipeline.