Games have come a long way since when they cost $80 and came in cardboard boxes with terrible cover art. The mechanism of funding (Kickstarter), the development process (ranging from tiny one-person indie shops to global studios), the medium (disc to download to app to web), and their business models all have evolved rapidly over the past 3-4 years.

You've settled on using Azure Mobile Services to persist your data, but now what? In this post you will learn one way to save your game's state in the cloud. Along the way you will discover and solve a common problem faced when using Azure Mobile Services.