Multiplayer Game In Unity with Firebase tutorial! (all platforms w/ Realtime/Auth & Cloud Functions)

Today I'll show you the capabilities of Firebase by creating a Multiplayer game in Unity using services like Realtime Database, Authentication & Cloud functions! This setup will allow for secure matchmaking & turn-based multiplayer between users for all platforms and little to no cost!
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Chapters:
0:00 Intro
0:59 Why use Firebase?
3:50 Demonstration time!
9:12 Client/Firebase communication
11:35 Supported platforms
13:21 Project structure
17:40 Let's make a move!
20:36 What are coroutines?
24:22 Error handling
26:17 Let's listen for a move!
31:05 User authentication
34:22 Backend code!
36:41 The queue
38:13 Matchmaking
40:42 What are transactions?
45:07 Ready-up
46:21 Processing a move
48:22 Securing our database!
52:38 Let's recap!
53:40 Outro
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- Music used in the video made by Elektronomia
#unity #firebase #multiplayer

[simple_]

Thank you so much Nico! I like your video and you are a great teacher!

[srigjksefjlsgkd]

keep it up ! I got alot of ideas with help of ur techs!! best thanks man.

[jedi]

Nico, I think that your explanations are thorough and great but I have a hard time focusing with the background music. I would prefer that there would be no background music at all because it's distracting to me.

[spolmy]

How do you handle players losing connection? I.e. in a 1vs1 multiplayer game where a lost connection from either player should result in game ending?

[joerideman]

Thanks for the video. From looking at your video I do not understand the waiting for move mechanism.

Is the gamemanager polling the firebase server at an interval? Or does it make a request and then wait indefinitely for an answer?

[carras]

why when i deploy the index file under every function in the cloud panel says us-central1 if i created the database in europe?

thanks

[kazimashiatsumaira]

I am confused. How did you signal other player from within the game that you want to join his room? There was no reference for the connection between them like a same id or room name being shared so one can join his friend's game and not a random player's

[urosstojanovic]

Great video, one question.
How would you add a timer, lets say user has 15 seconds to make a move?

[studiomalaka]

Ciao Niko! If you want to experiment with something different than firebase that offers most of its features in a lightweight open-source solution, for my current Unity project I'm leveraging kinto-storage. I'm very happy so far, open to share more if interested

[akosdanielbollok]

The problem with your approach is firebase unity sdk on desktopis for development purposes only and shouldn't be used in builds as of today. => Firebase auth has no support for native desktop unity games