Master foundations to niche topics for multiplayer games in Unity with this collection of tutorials.
In this tutorial we are going to build a simple demo to learn how to use Unity multiplayer features. Our game will have a single scene where we will implement a multiplayer Space Shooter. In our demo multiple players will be able to join the same game to shoot enemies that will be randomly spawned. … Read more How to Create a Multiplayer Game in Unity
You can access the full course here: Player Authentication with Azure PlayFab Setting up the PlayFab App To begin, let’s go to the PlayFab website: http://playfab.com. If you have a Microsoft account, click Login, otherwise Sign Up. When you login, you’ll be taken to the Developer page. Here, click on the New Studio to create a new studio. All we … Read more An Overview of PlayFab for Multiplayer Games
You can access the full course here: Turn-Based Game – Multiplayer Projects Part 1 Folder Structure In the Unity project, let’s setup our folders in the Project window. Create the following folders: Resources Sprites Scenes (if you don’t have it) Tilemap Scenes Now we need to create our two scenes: Menu and Game. In both scenes, we need … Read more A Guide to Tilemaps & RPCs for Multiplayer Games
You can access the full course here: RPG – Multiplayer Projects Part 1 Setting up the Project Before we begin, let’s first set up our folders and scenes. In the Scenes folder, delete the default SampleScene. Then create 2 new scenes: Menu and Game. While we’re at it, let’s also add these to our Build Settings screen (File > Build Settings). … Read more Create a Unity MMORPG Map with Tiled
You can access the full course here: Battle Royale – Multiplayer Projects Part 1 Folder Structure Let’s start by setting up out folder structure and 2 scenes. Materials Models Photon Prefabs Resources Scenes Game scene Menu scene Scripts Textures Menu Scene In our menu scene, let’s setup the camera for when we do the menu UI … Read more Creating a Multiplayer Battle Royale Map & Camera
You can access the full course here: Intro to Multiplayer Game Development Part 1 What’s Photon? Photon is a networking framework for Unity. It’s very similar in structure to UNet (now deprecated). How Does Multiplayer Work? Here’s how multiplayer in Photon and many other games works. Players connect to a server and send / receive … Read more An Introduction to Photon for Multiplayer Games
In the last tutorial we finished adding the single player features of our Bomberman game. Now, we are going to make it a multiplayer game, using Unity’s multiplayer support. In order to follow this tutorial, you are expected to be familiar with the following concepts: C# programming Basic Unity concepts, such as importing assets, creating … Read more How to Create a Multiplayer Bomberman Game in Unity – Part 3
In the last tutorial we started adding the basic game features in our Bomberman game. Now, we are going to finish implementing the single player features, such as: dropping bombs, creating explosions and adding a number of lives to the player. Then, in the next tutorial we can add the multiplayer stuff and finish the … Read more How to Create a Multiplayer Bomberman Game in Unity – Part 2
In this tutorial series we are going to build a multiplayer Bomberman game. Our game will have a title scene, which will allow the players to create or join games. Also, it will have a battle scene, where the players will fight each other in a competitive mode. In this first tutorial we will build … Read more How to Create a Multiplayer Bomberman Game in Unity – Part 1
