Cant play my multiplayer game with friends!!! plz Help!!!!

I gave my friend the folder with my multiplayer game in it, but we cant join each others game!!!!!

I think its because we are actually using different games because i copy/pasted it into a hard drive!

How do i fix this!!!!!


HELP ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

First, let me say, I'm a newb, so I don't know what I'm talking about. LOL. I am making a multiplayer game to play with my buddies at work and the first little test game I made worked with it on each players hard drive. Are you 100% sure you have the correct IP address? Maybe you are trying to use the WIFI IP?

 

Did you try to connect two instances of your game launched on the same pc ?

 

What tutorial or example did you follow to add network functionality to your game in the first place?

 

yes id tried two instances launched on my pc worked 100% fine

 

and i loosely followed the simple multiplayer tutorial unity learn


although i didnt make that game i made my own

 

Is your friend playing on LAN or from somewhere else? If you're on LAN, you don't have to worry about port forwarding/triggering like you do if you're not on LAN. In order to do port forwarding, look up guides on Youtube or your router's manufacturer as all router software is different although the terms and techniques are generally all the same.

Basically what's happening is your router is rejecting your friend's data, and you need to go into your router settings and force it to allow the data.

 

its on lan

since i COPIED the project on to a hard drive maybe actually not the same project

 

Copying a program doesn't change what happens when you run it. (If the behavior changed, then by definition it's not a copy.)

If two instances running on your own computer were able to connect to each other, then the reason you can't connect to your friend is almost certainly something to do with the network connection between your computers, not with the game itself.

 

look like a firewall issue

or may be a wrong ip address. more info are welcome !

 

Assuming you are on Windows, make sure you get the servers correct IP address.

Go to Start, Run
Type "cmd" and enter
At the prompt, enter ipconfig
I believe the IPv4 address is the one you want.

(if you are on Windows 10 you can go to Cortana and type cmd)

 

ok