Online multiplayer

[slovnicki]

What we'll use and how.

[Akshay-akkay]

Firestore ? I was using in my tic tac for a video call app. Easy as being server less but definitely more latency than a dedicated websocket server. If you wanna use Firestore, I can share some demo files.

[Zambrella]

https://meliorgames.com/game-development/back-end-solutions-multiplayer-games/

This seems to have the most popular options.

I've had experience with PlayFab (just the front-end) before and it's not too bad. A lot of features but could be fun.

I think for simplicity, Firebase would be best but if we want to expand it out and have leaderboards/user stats/advanced matchmaking/etc. then Game Sparks and PlayFab are both free up to 100k users.

[joeyda3rd]

Anyone investigate features of connecting Google play for games? Anything in there for multiplayer or just badges, game state saving, etc?