A basic understanding of Unity and C#.You should have the following prerequisites before you move ahead with this tutorial: How to setup an iOS project to work with Google Play Games Services.How to configure and install Google Play Games Services.In the first part of this tutorial series, you will learn the following:
When you show off an iOS and Android game playing together, your co-workers are going to think you’re some kind of crazy wizard! In this tutorial, you’ll create a networked multiplayer game that works across different brands of devices. And I haven’t heard of any player starting a relationship with an AI that they met online…movies starring Joaquin Phoenix notwithstanding.
No AI, no matter how clever, will have the same ingenuity as a human opponent, nor will trash talking an AI be as fun as trash talking your friends. In spite of the challenge of creating multiplayer games, they are totally worth it. What? You want to make a multiplayer game? Are you nuts!? These things are hard! Seriously, when it comes to game development, few things drive a developer crazier than multiplayer: it’s a pain to test, difficult to debug, can harbor bugs that are nearly impossible to reproduce - until, of course, you demo your game for the press - and, even when all your code is working perfectly, can still break thanks to flaky network connections.
