Crowded Kingdoms Management UI
The Management UI is the web portal at https://studio.crowdedkingdoms.com, with a tier-labelled host per tier — https://studio.dev.crowdedkingdoms.com on dev. The sign-in addresses app.crowdedkingdoms.com, app.dev.crowdedkingdoms.com and app.test.crowdedkingdoms.com redirect to the matching portal and are fine to link to. crowdedkingdoms.com on its own is the marketing site, not the portal.
Studios and players use the portal to manage accounts, organizations, marketplace access, billing, and apps on the shared platform — the managed Game API where your games run, scoped by appId.
Who uses it
| Audience | Typical tasks |
|---|---|
| Players / end users | Register, confirm email, manage profile, browse the marketplace, purchase app access. |
| Studio members | Org dashboards: create apps, manage members, API tokens, org wallet, budgets, quotas, and app settings. |
Org permissions control which tabs a member sees (for example, only owners can invite members or top up the wallet). The Management API enforces the same rules; the UI is a convenience layer on top of GraphQL.
New studio owner journey
- Register and sign in — create your account at
/registerwith email and a password, a magic link, or a social provider. - Join or create an organization — share your User ID with an org owner to get invited, or create a new studio from My Orgs (
/orgs). - Get started — app-first wizard: name your game, complete billing setup if required, create on the shared platform.
- Connect clients — mint an app-scoped token and point your game at the shared Game API URL.
You are not dropped into the marketplace by default when you have no org — the portal guides you toward studio setup.
Main areas
- Account (
/account/*) — profile, access you have purchased. Legacy account-level Payments (donations, property tokens) is no longer offered in the UI; studio spend uses the org wallet. - Marketplace (
/marketplace) — discover apps and buy access (Stripe or PayPal). - Organizations (
/orgs/:orgSlug) — studio operations: apps, members, tokens, wallet, budgets, quotas, settings, and Get started (/orgs/:orgSlug/get-started).
Game runtime (chunks, voxels, actors, UDP) is not configured in this portal; clients connect to the Game API and Replication API using an app-scoped token minted from a login session (org-issued credentials are management-plane only and cannot drive gameplay) — see Portals & app-scoped tokens.
Next steps
- Dev tier (client integration) — public dev hosts, shared endpoints, and smoke checklist for early client testing.
- Create your first app — primary onboarding wizard (shared platform).
- Connecting to your app — endpoints, tokens, and client configuration.
- Apps on the shared platform — routing, free tier, and app dashboard.
- Shared environment & billing — wallet, usage, and runtime status.
- Management API — programmatic access to the same org, billing, and app operations.
- CrowdyJS — browser SDK for game clients talking to the Game API.