Best practices on Multiplayer game modes

Unity Engine
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Hi

Im coding a Multiplayer game right now the game is split screen local multiplayer only but I would like to know the best practices to code different multiplayer game modes, like deathmatch, team deathmatch, etc… I have a Game Manager that has a function to end the match when its called but Im sensing if I try to hard code every single gamemode on the Game Manager the code will become a mess rather quickly so I would like to know the best aproaches to this subject…

If you made a multiplayer game with different game modes I love to see examples on how you implemented them…

Thanks in advance.

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My recommendation (and this is just one of many different approaches) is to use composition. Don’t use a single Game Manager, and don’t make subclasses of Game Manager.

Instead, build each rule or subsystem as a separate component. This way, you can mix and match to create different game modes, and each script is short and easy to understand, with a single, clear purpose.

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Thank you for the tip, end up doing something similar I still have the game manager but the conditions to win are in separate scripts so I use one class or another depending on the game mode. for example I did this for the deathmatch mode:

using UnityEngine;
using System.Collections;
public class DeathMatch : MonoBehaviour {
    GameManager _GameManager;

    // Use this for initialization
    void Start () {
        _GameManager = gameObject.GetComponent<GameManager>();
    }
   
    // Update is called once per frame
    public void CheckCondition(){
    for (int i = 0; i< _GameManager.PlayerChart.Count;i++){
    if (_GameManager.PlayerChart[i].PlayerFrags >= MatchInformation.Instance.MaxNumOfFrags){
        _GameManager.EndMatchFunc();
            }
   
   
        }
    }
}

So every time someone score a Frag the GameManager sends a message asking to check if the conditions to win are met if the condition is true then the EndMatch funtion is ran and the match is over.

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Nice

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Im trying to do the same thing for making gamemodes and this really helped thx

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Thanks.

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