I’ve added the option for players to build their own maps in my game and I’d like them to be able to upload and share with other players. PC is fine I’ll just use Steam workshop but I’m not sure what to do about mobile. I’d like it to be cross platform and wondered if there’s any hosting options out there?
I have a Synology server and could perhaps host my own web server, not sure this is the right way to go about it though.
Any ideas? Cheers
You’d need to have something that can host files for you. A web server would be fine. Amazon Web Services has data hosting services as does Azure.
For a web server you would need to send the map file (.txt I’m assuming) via WWW request and on the web server you would need a script to take the file it receives and save it to your web server. Then to retrieve it you would just go to your website at, http://yoursite.com/path/where/you/uploaded/the/map.txt and it’ll output that text document.
Hopefully that made sense.
Thanks, i was hoping there might be some service or website template for displaying the uploaded content, allowing people to rate them etc