Hey everyone! I'm new to the Vapor community and I'm developing a gamified app using SwiftUI. I was wondering if anyone has recommendations for a free server that I can use in my app. The data I need to store isn't too complex, including things like a player's number of correct answers, whether they've finished the game, among others. However, since it's a multiplayer game, server speed is crucial. Any suggestions that meet these requirements? Thanks in advance for the help!
#Looking for Recommendations: Free Vapor Server for Multiplayer SwiftUI Game App
fringe garden
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Depending upon the requirements, why not CloudKit to host the data?
If it is just data you are storing
viral pagoda
What exactly should be "free" here? Developing such a thing, if at all possible on Vapor, if definitely a time-consuming endeavour. You don't get high-performance machines in the cloud for free anywhere either
fringe garden
Depending upon the requirements, why not CloudKit to host the data?
For my application, CloudKit is too slow. I don't want to store data per se, just exchange data from one device to another, or from one device to others in the same lobby.
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If "local" multiplayer, the GameSDKs can probably handle it and just process it on a "host" device. If doing MP across the wire, then you'll need to build out the backend yourself (vapor can handle it just fine) but will require paying for a server especially if you want high performance.
fringe garden
If "local" multiplayer, the GameSDKs can probably handle it and just process it ...
My app needs to be networked. I already have an MVP with SharePlay, however, the session connection method isn't very user-friendly.
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What about GameKit
fringe garden
My app likely won't have many users as I'm developing it more as a challenge during my internship. Therefore, the consumption-related costs are unlikely to be very high.
It cannot be local, which is why I opted to use SharePlay in the MVP instead of Multipeer/GameKit
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Might want to look at the MatchMaking API part of GameKit. I think that will do what you want.
fringe garden
With this 'MatchMaking,' is it possible to play from a device on network A with another on network B?
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That is what it looks like
fringe garden
ok, I'll look