Skillz enables developers to add livestreaming to their mobile games

Live video broadcasting is one of the biggest ways that developers enable their fan communities to engage with one another, and now game studios have a new way to enable that functionality in their mobile releases.

Skillz, a company that enables game makers to add real-money competitions to their mobile apps, has added livestreaming to its free toolkit. This means that any developer can quickly implement broadcasting into their game because Skillz claims that its technology works with all game engines. That is a first for livestreaming on mobile, as the other software development kits from companies like Twitch only work with certain frameworks. Skillz expects studios to embrace this feature since live video is growing at a rapid rate in the gaming space and especially in the e-sports sector, which the company specializes in. More than 134 million people watched live pro-gaming events online last year, and that represents an 88 percent increase year over year.