How to make a Multiplayer Video Game in Unity using the Photon 2 plugin. For this lesson, we will teach you how to download, install, and set up the Photon 2 plugin in Unity.
In this Unity Multiplayer tutorial, you will learn why it is better to use the Photon 2 multiplayer plugin than other networking APIs such as the built-in Unity networking service. We will also teach you how to download, import, and set up the Photon 2 Multiplayer plugin. The Photon 2 Multiplayer plugin is our recommended plugin for creating multiplayer games in Unity. The Photon Multiplayer plugin is an easy to use API with good documentation and it supports all of the features you might need to create your multiplayer game which was my number one problem with Unity’s networking service. The Unity Networking service did not provide key multiplayer features such as Host Migration.
Photon Engine: https://dashboard.photonengine.com/en-US/account/signin
Payment Plans: https://www.photonengine.com/en/pun/pricing
Documentation: https://doc.photonengine.com/en-us/pun/current/getting-started/pun-intro
Scripting API: https://doc-api.photonengine.com/en/pun/v2/index.html
You will want to start by creating a new Unity Project. Once you have it created you can use Unity’s Collaboration service to back up your project. We will then want to download and import the Photon 2 multiplayer plugin. You can find it by searching for Photon PUN in the Unity asset store. You will want to download and import the PUN 2 – FREE plugin. Once you have imported all the assets you will want to go to the Photon website that I have linked to and login or create an account. After logging in you will want to click on Create New App. You will then need to select the Photon type from the drop-down menu which for us it Photon PUN. You will then need to go through the form and fill out all the required information about your project. You will then click on create to save this project.
You should now be on the home page for your Photon dashboard. You will then need to click on your new application’s AppID. You will want to copy this string value and go back to Unity. You will need to open the Photon PUN wizard window where you will paste in your AppID and hit Setup. After this, your Photon 2 Multiplayer project should be all set up and ready to start being developed.
