I’d like to know what is the easiest (but if possible fairly secured) way to host a simple database for a Unity game.
The idea would be simply :
an array of players, referenced by their name, and for each of these players a few int and strings.
In this scenario I wouldn’t implement a real networked multiplayer gameplay but more a local one -think smash bros but with character creation/persistence- the players would log and then read/write their character progress in the database.
I don’t even know if I can do this in C#, I’m a real newbie here !
I want it to be a global database so the players can play their “characters anywhere”
I already heard about Playfab but it seemed a little bit “overkill” for my needs.
In my thoughts it would be a cheap cloud storage of an array that I can populate like
player list
for each player an int for gold and xp
a list of stuff, each stuff contains another list of strings (player names) that I write and check to see if players possesses the item or not.
Maybe a few other really simple things as you can see !
Playfab would be good for that. They handle Authentication and other things for you. But if you really want it yourself I guess just a PHP page connected to some SQL db? Or possibly something like Google Firebase (Android and iOS only for Unity).
I’m gonna check out all of these solutions, thanks man !
Also as a secondary topic, I’ve been hesitating between a networked multiplayer game and a local “party game-like” multiplayer.
Well, even if I already worked a bit with Unet I found out that I would need help i was going the full network road.
So if I’m choosing to go local :
the big downside is for 4 players playing, you sell one game copy, and it’s a big deal.
I’ve been thinkingo of an “elegant” solution, tell me what you think about it.
The characters data would be linked to the players Steam accounts, if you wanna save your progress, money and stuff, you must possess yourself (every player) a copy of the game. If you don’t, you can play but as guest, meaning that you are not able to keep your progress xp etc…
(also it would potentially solve my all data persistence problem as I think Steam does have such a service, but maybe i’m wrong)
Sorry, I meant fully networked like a sever hosted game, like “any recent” game.
Partygame is for me more like a “mario kart” game where you plug 4 controllers and play locally in a single instance of the game.
Oh, Split screen vs Multiplayer basically? Split screen is not really what people play these days. But if you want to make a split screen game. Go for it. If you do you don’t have to worry about Network code at all. You can simply write your singleplayer code and make sure you split the screen with different cameras.
Yep, I know that, but I still want the different created characters to persist through games (and space ^^).
Dont know if you ever played Gauntlet, but it’s basically what I want :
you log in with your ps4 account (every players in the room) and then when you play your progress are stored 'inside" your account so everyone can have a character progression.
So yes, I do need some sort of cloud and id service
https://playfab.com/pricing/
Free development and you can launch free. but if you have a large player base you need to upgrade. But limits are very high for the free plan. They can host dedicated game servers for you and other things.
The player limits bothers me a little bit, even if I get a large amount of players, the actual data to keep would be really low so a price per player might not really fit my need.
Thanks man, I’m gonna take a deeper look into it
