[UNet] How to Implement Dedicated Server for Hosting Duels?

Hi,

I have this multiplayer game coded using the new Unity Networking system, where players fight in duels. I would like to have a server to do matchmaking and hosting duels. The way I imagine it is that players would click "Find opponent" button in the game and they would queue in matchmaking system and the server would pick 2 players and then the server would host the duel. So I want to have my own dedicated game server that people could be able to connect to over internet. I have the game working over LAN - so 1 instance of the duel. I have no idea how to write the server aplication that would create and manage many duel instances.

Could someone please tell me in general what I need to do? What could I use to do the matchmaking? Thank you in advance.

 

UNET already provides matchmaking facilities with its Internet Services (currently in free preview mode with 100 CCU; final pricing details have not been announced yet). You can find the official documentation on how to set them up in your project here. It is a very straightforward process but there are some known bugs (more specifically, note this one and this one in particular).

You can have player hosted games, but if you want a dedicated server you can run a Unity headless instance (more details here) or wait until Unity releases the server library (which was initially planned for 5.4 but has been delayed; you can find more details here).

 

Thank you for the info. I will keep my eye on the server library.

 

Hi! How did you manage to implement LAN with Unet? im a noob with networking and so far i was trying to make a subnet scanner to then pass the ips to Unet.. Could you please help me with that?
Thanks in advance!