bullet-mania VS cli

Bullet Mania, a demo game to showcase building scalable multiplayer games with Hathora We know that building multiplayer games can feel nearly impossible for indie game developers. Bullet Mania showcases how simple it can be to build scalable, production-ready games with Hathora. Bullet Mania is completely open source and is able to scale to thousands of matches just by deploying on Hathora Cloud and integrating with Hathora’s SDK. It utilizes our new Lobby Service APIs to make integration even more streamlined. Check out our step-by-step guide to get started: Bullet Mania.

If latency is a concern, you probably need a backend that can handle websocket connections as well as UDP connections from Unity clients (possible I am misunderstanding your game's setup). A game-focused hosting solution like Hathora would be a good fit here because you will be able to minimize latency and get access to APIs that are made for game developers. Here's an open-source tutorial game that shows a multiplayer web game running on Hathora (disclosure: I am a founding engineer at Hathora). We also have a Unity plugin launching later this week, I can notify you when I launches if you have interest.

If you happen to prefer looking through a fully functional game with a working lobby system, you can check out this tutorial game I worked on: https://github.com/hathora/bullet-mania

I listed those in order of player base size requirements. If your player base is small or new, then private matches are the best place to start. I recently launched a demo game that is aimed to help indies build this functionality

If you want to build multiplayer games, here's a fully open-source game with a step-by-step guide that I worked on: https://bullet-mania.netlify.app/

I am currently working on a tool to help make it even easier for indies to make multiplayer games. Just launched a fully open-source web game tutorial, and I am working on a Godot tutorial next. I can update you when that tutorial is ready!

It’s our foundational goal to make Hathora as easy as possible to integrate with the existing tech stacks. On that front, we’ve invested heavily in a simple UI to deploy and test your games on our platform with Hathora Console (and CLI support if that’s your thing). You can view logs, track metrics, and update deployment configurations with 0 downtime.