{"id":5780,"date":"2021-05-20T22:39:27","date_gmt":"2021-05-20T22:39:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eeldev.com\/index.php\/docs\/gamelift\/setup-server\/initializing\/"},"modified":"2021-05-20T22:39:53","modified_gmt":"2021-05-20T22:39:53","slug":"initializing","status":"publish","type":"docs","link":"https:\/\/eeldev.com\/index.php\/docs\/gamelift\/setup-server\/initializing\/","title":{"rendered":"Initializing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Implement the two events inside our\u00a0<strong>GameInstance<\/strong>, called\u00a0<strong>Init<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0<strong>Shutdown<\/strong>. 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