March 2012

In a series of posts we’ll do “Firebase From Scratch”, an introduction to Firebase and its concepts and ideas. Hopefully, reading this series will give you a firm grasp of what Firebase is and what it can do.

• Part 1: Introduction
• Part 2: Diving In
• Part 3: A Maven Interlude
• Part 4: Games, Services and Tournaments
• Part 5: What's In a Server Game Anyway?
• Part 6: Activating Games
• Part 7: Actions On The Table
• Part 8: Services

And in this installment we'll get to some actual code! Exciting! We'll start off with looking quickly at the major building blocks that goes into a server side Game, and then we'll dive into a traditional "Hello World".