Hello.

I am new to game development and i want to create multiplayer mobile game on unity.

I do not know programming so i am going to hire programmers to make game for me, but first i have to know about some details about it. I would like to make massive real time multiplayer game with more then 16 players ingame. As i was suggested i should make client/server based game.

So should i develop the game first and then make client/server connection or should i start programming client/server based game from the beginning?

As i said i am going to hire a programmers so if one of them will make a game itself will i be able to find another programmer which will be able to make client/server connection with it? or should i give first programmer some rules to follow in order to make job easier for second one? Will second programmer be able to code client/server connection on the game developed by another person?

If you have some suggestions for me you can share them, as i am beginner it would be helpful.

Thank you in advance.

What kind of game is it? It's very common to use servers for multiplayer games, but sometimes the game can be demanding in a way that needs more servers or for the clients to talk to oneanother.

Please talk about your idea with sw architects first, and flesh out a design from there.

GiorgiDev said:
So should i develop the game first and then make client/server connection or should i start programming client/server based game from the beginning?

Make the Tic-Tac-Toe game first with simple WebSockets connection or something like this. You can host your server side on free Heroku or OpenShift. This is some impotent details if you use SocketIO: https://forum.unity.com/threads/can-i-connect-unity-app-with-node-js-server.403695/#post-3421521​

But I prefer the 'ws' module (https://www.npmjs.com/package/ws) now instead of socketIO. You can make the server side using this book: Multiplayer Game Development with HTML5 It describes hot to make Tic-Tac-Toe and Classic Snake games with multiplayer.

This is simple example that I host on Heroku: https://github.com/8Observer8/mouse-click-js​ Instruction how to host on Heroku:

On the Heroku website, in the upper right corner, select "New" -> "Create new app":

Type in the name of the game and select the region for the server and click the "Create app" button:

On the "Deploy" tab, click the "Connect to GitHub" button:

A field will appear where you need to enter the name of the repository, click "Search":

A "Deploy Branch" button will appear, which downloads the application from GitHub, or you can click the "Enable Automatic Deploy" button, which will enable automatic download from GitHub whenever you do a "git push" on your computer.

The application will be deployed and you will have a link to the application.