Dedicated server support for multiplayer?

Unity Engine
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Hi folks,

I’m currently making a game named “Planetsave” in Unity3D, that tells the player to save our environment. But currently I only can play my game in the singleplayer mode, I want to play it in the multiplayer mode. Now to my question: Is it possible to create with the Unity MLAPI multiplayer games with dedicated server support? I’m asking you this here because I want to make my game playable with friends.

Sincerely yours,
Atten007

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Hey, that is indeed doable. You could consider the possibility of using like Mirror or Darkrift 2 if you want to develop a multiplayer game.

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Netcode for GameObjects (formerly known as MLAPI) allows for dedicated servers. To run a dedicated server you’d simply build your game as a “server build” in the build settings and run “StartServer” on the NetworkManager to start a server instance of the game.

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How do you handle testing of the dedicated server? or hiding the server logic from possible decompilation of your assemblies?

#if UNITY_SERVER is definitely not practical for developing, but it’s practical for hiding server side code in the client build.