matchbox
Painless peer-to-peer WebRTC networking for rust wasm (and native!) (by johanhelsing)
nakama
Distributed server for social and realtime games and apps. (by heroiclabs)
| matchbox | nakama | |
|---|---|---|
| 8 | 40 | |
| 818 | 8,349 | |
| - | 1.8% | |
| 8.7 | 8.9 | |
| 27 days ago | 4 days ago | |
| Rust | Go | |
| Apache License 2.0 | Apache License 2.0 |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
matchbox
Posts with mentions or reviews of matchbox.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-22.
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Announcing lavagna v2, a collaborative blackboard made with bevy and WebRTC
The “collaboration” feature is achieved thanks to matchbox crate, a peer-to-peer WebRTC networking library.
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IronBoy: High accuracy GameBoy emulator written in Rust and available in the browser via WASM
Consider using https://github.com/johanhelsing/matchbox to help with the WebRTC problem, I hear good things about it
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Show HN: Hathora – Multiplayer Game Development Made Easy
https://github.com/johanhelsing/matchbox
Even then, you'd cover only some very specific use-cases of multiplayer game-making.
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[Showcase] wasm-peers: easy-to-use WebRTC networking wrapper for WASM
That's the approach taken by the matchbox project, and it's done pretty well.
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Bevy 0.6
In theory, it should also be possible to support browser-native crossplay that way. I did some work on supporting that, but I'm currently stuck on an issue with webrtc-rs.
nakama
Posts with mentions or reviews of nakama.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-02-01.
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Game Server Framework Recommendation
nakama: https://github.com/heroiclabs/nakama
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Next steps for Postgres pluggable storage
To add more detail on the recent work on the ZHeap storage engine. We (Heroic Labs) sponsored work for the Cybertec team to bring it up to date with latest improvements and changes with Postgres' pluggable storage engine:
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Is there anyway to create an “online guild” system in my idle game.
you can do that, but for what platform? html5? windows? android?, the most easiest way is use firestore a service from firebase (offer a free tier), it is the easiest way not the better, other way is use a service like nakama that is more professional and something in the middle can be mmm pocketbase or supabase.
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Starred a game and want to make multi-player like stardew, tips?
I recommend the backend solution called Nakama since you’re using Godot: https://heroiclabs.com/
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Question about Multiplayer Lobby System
You could create all this yourself, or you can use existing solutions which handle all this (and much more I didn't mention). One that I'm aware of that works with Godot is Nakama. They have a paid hosting option, or you can host the application yourself.
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I discover that MMORPG are really hard to make
I read using nakama server for this is convinient. https://heroiclabs.com/
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Recommendations for Tech for 1v1 RTS Indie Game
Does anyone have recommendations on what to use? I've done a bit of research and found https://heroiclabs.com/. It's a bit unclear to me if it actually supports server side state because it talks about 'hosts' a bit, but I think it does...and it seems like you can host it yourself to avoid the $600 a MONTH! pricetag. But any other recommendations? Has anyone used heroic before?
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Is it a bad idea to run everything on a server
You might be interested in Nakama server from https://heroiclabs.com/
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Multiplayer Tic Tac Toe: how to create multiple game rooms
Depending on how much effort you want to put in to this, you might consider something like Nakama: https://github.com/heroiclabs/nakama
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What's the 'best' networking solution for Unity? UNet, Photon/Bolt/Fusion, Mirror, Netcode for GOs?
There have been mentions of Normcore, Fish-Net, and Nakama as well.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing matchbox and nakama you can also consider the following projects:
bevy_egui - This crate provides an Egui integration for the Bevy game engine. 🇺🇦 Please support the Ukrainian army: https://savelife.in.ua/en/
ggpo - Good Game, Peace Out Rollback Network SDK
Yew-WebRTC-Chat - A simple WebRTC chat made with Yew
GameNetworkingSockets - Reliable & unreliable messages over UDP. Robust message fragmentation & reassembly. P2P networking / NAT traversal. Encryption.
bevy - A refreshingly simple data-driven game engine built in Rust
LiteNetLib - Lite reliable UDP library for Mono and .NET
bevy-website - The source files for the official Bevy website
rapier - 2D and 3D physics engines focused on performance.
bevy_ggrs - Bevy plugin for the GGRS P2P rollback networking library.
starboard - Moved to https://github.com/aquasecurity/trivy-operator
wasm-peers - Easy-to-use wrapper for WebRTC DataChannels peer-to-peer connections written in Rust and compiling to WASM.
siad - The Sia daemon