Setting Up Discord Platform Services

Requirements

Windows 10 x64.
Discord.
A valid game application (with a valid Application Identified) developed via the Discord Developer portal.

Although Windows 11 x64 might work, it is not officially supported.
Be sure to copy discord_game_sdk.dll from the Discord Game SDK into the binary output folder of your CRYENGINE project (by default: bin/win_x64 for Profile builds). Since the CryGamePlatform Discord plugin links to this DLL dynamically, this DLL must be somewhere the application can find it (such as the binary folder).
By default, the discord_game_sdk.dll file can be found in the Code/SDKs/discord-game-sdk/lib/x86_64/ folder of your CRYENGINE project.

Configuration Setup

By default, the Discord implementation will not load if you run your project via the Sandbox Editor. To enable the implementation in the Sandbox Editor:

Set the discord_editor_support CVar to 1.
Declare discord_appid, the Application Identifier of your game application created via the Discord Developer portal.

These can be placed in one of the default .cfg files (system.cfg, game.cfg or user.cfg), or embedded into your .cryproject file.

Example

Here is an example of the CVar and Application Identifier declared in a First Shooter Template project:

  "console_commands": { },
  "console_variables": {
    "cl_DefaultNearPlane": "0.05",
    "sys_target_platforms": "pc,ps4,xboxone,linux",
        "discord_appid": "931611096516476130",
        "discord_editor_support": "1"
  }

For more information on setting up your own Discord Application for use with your game, please see the Discord Developer Portal Documentation.

Requirements

Configuration Setup

Example