Creating a real time multiplayer FB game

[idtoufik 0]

Hi,

Is it possible to create a realtime multiplayer facebook instant game ? all the facebook instant games that I encountered were turn based.

If yes what will I need, is it necessary to have a back-end on a remote server for that.

I'm new to web game engines, I used to work with Unity, what is the most suitable game engine for creating such a game ? I currently want to use Babylon Js.

Thank you in advance.

TI

[playh5 1]

Evo wars is not turn based I believe. Same as snake mania

[idtoufik 0]

8 hours ago, playh5 said:

Evo wars is not turn based I believe. Same as snake mania

Thank you for the good examples, I think that these games use their own back-end for multiplayer support, can anyone confirm ?

Is there any native Facebook support for multiplayer games between at least 2 Facebook friends?

[Noel 39]

Hi @idtoufik,

Yes, you will need a back-end to make live multiplayer games.

[idtoufik 0]

31 minutes ago, Noel said:

Hi @idtoufik,

Yes, you will need a back-end to make live multiplayer games.

Ok thanks

[playh5 1]

Will heroku free do the job?

[idtoufik 0]

Yes, under Node js, I have also found this project that allows to create game servers quickly its build on top of websockets.

[usergame 5]

Do not waste your time. Platform is dead.

[Kaspian 0]

Not sure if I can post links but I setup websockets with a redis database following this video and tweaking to my needs 

 

[idtoufik 0]

On 2/1/2019 at 11:34 PM, usergame said:

Do not waste your time. Platform is dead.

Hi @usergame, 

Is there any problem with colyseus ?