December 1, 2021
Creating and shipping a multiplayer game isn’t easy and often involves many more parts compared to a singleplayer game as everything needs to be synchronized with other players to create that one consistent, shared reality.
Today, we’re diving into those common misc...
November 22, 2021
Introducing our brand new multiplayer connection services, Relay and Lobby, plus a fresh sample project to learn hands-on with these services.
November 17, 2021
Multiplayer gaming is bigger than ever and with that growth has come a longing for greater cross-platform accessibility. Unity has partnered with The Harris Poll to bring you insight on the rising demand for games that are easier to play with friends.
November 10, 2021
Multiplayer gaming is becoming ever more popular and vital for success in our industry, so that is why we are working to create a robust and extensible network solution to help your projects reach their potential.
October 14, 2021
How do you know the amount of players your multiplayer title will attract? Accurately predicting the number is an appealing prospect because it means you know how much server capacity you’ll need to keep your audience happy and your game online. But prediction methods are unrelia...
April 8, 2021
Explore Unity’s new, experimental netcode library and the underlying patterns of a multiplayer game in our small scale cooperative RPG, Boss Room
March 24, 2021
We’ve partnered with Genvid, creators of a toolset allowing you to create richly interactive livestreams, turning your viewers into participants with influence over the content being streamed.
December 3, 2020
One of Unity’s top priorities for 2021 is to expand the Unity ecosystem with a first-party multiplayer networking solution for GameObjects that is easy to set up and extend, scales to meet the needs of high-performance titles, and is seamlessly integrated into the Unity ecosystem...
September 8, 2020
Updated on 21st October to incorporate feedback from the community Changelog (blogpost & pdf):
Removed DOTS from the comparison table to avoid confusion
Adjusted Mirror’s ranking
Removed the “Best in <category>” assessment to reduce potential...
August 19, 2020
On June 8, 2018, Rob Pedrosa, Director of Operations and Services for Hi-Rez Studios felt good. Realm Royale had gone live a few days prior and everything went silky smooth.
He’d planned enough capacity for the launch and his liveops team was only dealing with minor issues. All ...
June 13, 2019
As many of you know, we put UNet into maintenance mode because we believe there is a better way forward with our new connected games stack. Since this announcement, we have learned that many of our developers need guidance about the best path for their game during this transition...
October 24, 2018
At Unite LA yesterday, we announced the first release of the FPS Sample project, a multiplayer First-Person Shooter game. You can now download the full project including both source code and assets. The project is for you to use as a source of inspiration. You can also use ...
