Unity Multiplayer SDKs and Managed & Self-Hosted Solutions Overview
As a practical follow up to the previous Back-End Design Video, I wanted to discuss Multiplayer Solutions for Unity both in term of Self-Hosted as well as Managed Solutions that currently exist on the market. While there are a lot of different features that could differentiate each of these solutions from each other, I wanted to break them into these two groups to simplify the comparisons and really focus on the core metrics I would use to evaluate each solution : development time and pricing.
And while there is a lot that will differentiate each of the solutions mentioned in this video, there is a lot of common features that they all share
1) Providing a concept of Rooms to have players compete
2) A message relay server to allow players to communicate with one another
3) a Unity Client SDK to abstract out all the networking TCP / UDP requirements
Here are all the multiplayer solutions that we will be mentioning in this video:
Managed Multiplayer Services:
1. NormCore.io : https://normcore.io/
2. Photon Cloud : https://www.photonengine.com/
3. Gamespark by Amazon : https://www.gamesparks.com/
4 Playfab by Microsoft : https://playfab.com/
5. Beamable : https://www.beamable.com/
Self-Hosted Multiplayer Solutions:
1. Nakama : https://github.com/heroiclabs/nakama
2. MobiledgeX Edge Multiplay : https://github.com/mobiledgex/edge-mu...
3. Photon Server : https://www.photonengine.com/server
4. Unity UNET / Mirror : https://assetstore.unity.com/packages...
5. Steamworks : https://partner.steamgames.com/doc/fe...
Chapters:
0:00 Managed vs Self-Hosted Multiplayer
1:40 Multiplayer Similarities
2:39 Managed Multiplayer Solutions
3:49 Pros & Cons of Managed Solutions
6:29 Skill-Based Matchmaking
9:22 Self-Hosted Multiplayer Solutions
10:00 How To Host Self-Hosted?
10:46 How To Install Self-Hosted?
11:36 What Features are Provided?
12:38 Calculating Price on Google Cloud
16:11 Conclusion
Docker Resources:
MobiledgeX Hello World Docker Guide : https://developers.mobiledgex.com/gui...
Docker Getting Started : https://www.docker.com/get-started
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