Well, we already explained that you shouldn’t do it for games, we explained that it can not be made secure, that it is slow and not recommended at all. Though if you want to do it anyways, here’s an older question where I even tried it with the latest mysql connector and provided an example which I actually tested successfully.
Though note that the question over there also did not open the mysql server to the internet and just required his server application to use the local database.