Build Multiplayer Games

This activity is included in an 8-part, 1 hour series to learn Game Maker. Short, focused topics with guided practice will give you practical experience building useful logic for creating games.

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Design Multiplayer Game Logic

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In this activity, you will learn the fundamentals of setting up logic layers for multiplayer games, which combines logic individual players experience and synchronized logic all player experience. This includes how variables in the Rules System and Spawn Point behaviors can be used to create teams. Finally, you will learn how to share your Experience for testing or publish it to The Sandbox Map if you own LAND.

How Does Multiplayer Work?

Two Logic Layers

Multiplayer Experiences synchronize data across all players, such as object motion.

However, not all logic needs to be Synchronized [MP] for all players. To improve gameplay performance, some logic can be managed on the individual, or Client [SP], layer.

When adding logic to an object, you can see a dropdown filter for these communication layers.

Behaviour/component window dropdown filter (top right)

Launch Game Maker

  • Open the Experience from the previous activity to reuse some of its logic.

Follow Up

Multiplayer is a deep and complex topic because it opens up many more game types and specialized approaches to create gameplay. We've introduced some of the key considerations so you can begin to explore it further.

We encourage you to start building your first multiplayer Experience once you feel confident with how to use Game Maker's systems to build logic for a singleplayer Experience.


Relevant Resources

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Set up teams, starter equipment, and components (features) to apply to players by spawn point.

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Change the properties of objects, such as visibility, collisions, gravity, and UI visibility for dynamic yet optimised gameplay logic.

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See how logic works differently in singleplayer and multiplayer games and how to optimise with our guidelines.

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Creator Events: Game Jams Join a Game Jam to challenge yourself to grow as you practice applying your skills and explore creating new things. You do not need to own LAND to participate!

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Create a free Experience Page, even if you don't own LAND! Hook players on a story, wow Game Jam judges, provide extra details for play, or announce rules for your own contests.

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Launch an Experience on the map if you own LAND. Learn about the Experience Manager's tools, content upload specifications, marketing, making trailers, and player engagement.

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See the workflow teams use to publish professional content and try it out for yourself. We break it down into easy actionable steps!

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Use our guidelines to plan ahead, add polish, and test carefully to ensure your game is fun and functional.

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Make games easier to play! Improve your Experience page, use assets as visual aids, build in hands-on tutorials, and more.


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