Games & Interactive Systems

Ticket-based Matchmaking

Clients submit tickets → Elo match → Allocate server

Zone 01

Players

👤

Client A

Elo 1200

👤

Client B

Elo 1180

👤

Client C

Elo 1220

submit
ticket

Zone 02

API Gateway

🔀

API Gateway

REST / WebSocket
rate-limit · auth

enqueue

Zone 03

Matchmaking
Backend

⚡

Redis

Ticket Queue
sorted by Elo

🎯

Matchmaking
Service

pop + Elo match
group formation

allocate
server

Zone 04

Runtime

🖥️

Server Allocator

Agones / custom
spawn game server

🎮

Game Server

spawned instance
IP sent to clients

submit ticket

enqueue

allocate server

join server IP