PlayFab Multiplayer SDK for Unity

Overview

This is a PlayFab Multiplayer plugin for game development on Unity.

(Please use Git client with Large File Storage (LFS) support to work with this repo)

Supported platforms:

• Windows
• Microsoft Game Core (just "Game Core" below)

Version

Multiplayer Unity SDK (main)
1.7.9.0-main.0

Officially supported versions of PlayFabMultiplayer binaries with this release, by platform:

Platform	Version	Notes
Windows	1.7.9
Game Core	1.7.10	Compatible with GDK 2023.06 (June 2023) or later

Prerequisites

• PlayFab account (www.playfab.com) registered and set up:
  • Studio and App configured, TitleID exists
  • Highly recommended: PlayFab Unity test app tried to ensure seamless PlayFab integration
• PlayFab Unity Editor Extensions plugin (recommended)
• PlayFab (Core) SDK (installed via PlayFab Unity Editor extensions)
• If you are targeting Windows:
  • Unity Windows Build Support (IL2CPP) Add-on installed
• If you are targeting Game Core platform (consoles and/or PC):
  • Have access to the Microsoft Game Development Kit (GDK)
  • GDK installed (with all optional components)
  • If you are targeting Game Core on Xbox consoles:
    • Unity Game Core Add-on for a necessary console installed (download from Unity)

What's inside

The SDK contains the following:

• /PlayFabMultiplayerSDK – This folder contains APIs that you will call from your game to take advantage of Lobby, Matchmaking and other functionality offered by PlayFabMultiplayer.
• /PlayFabMultiplayerSDK/Prefabs – This folder contains the PlayfabMultiplayerEventProcessor prefab.
• /PlayFabMultiplayerSDK/Setup/GameCore – This folder contains set up scripts that need to be used once to prepare the SDK to build for Game Core.
• /PlayFabMultiplayerSDK/Source/DLLs – This folder contains the underlying PlayFabMultiplayer C++ library binaries for each supported platform.

Getting Started

Setting up your environment

• Create a new Unity project
• Open player settings from the Unity main menu: Edit > Project Settings...
• Next, select the 'Player' tab
• Scroll down and check the box: Allow 'unsafe' Code
• Close the Project Settings window
• Link your Unity project with PlayFab by installing the editor extensions: https://github.com/PlayFab/UnityEditorExtensions/releases
• Import this plugin
• Install latest version of PlayFabSDK plugin using PlayFab Unity Editor Extensions UI
• Log in to your PlayFab title using PlayFab Unity Editor Extensions UI
• Follow README guidelines from PlayFabSDK to test basic PlayFab functionality
• Create a new, empty scene
• Import PlayFab Multiplayer Unity SDK plugin (unity package)
• If you are targeting Game Core:
  • Go to /Assets/PlayFabMultiplayerSDK/Setup/GameCore folder in File Explorer and run install-multiplayer-game-core-dependencies.ps1 (or .cmd) script, it will copy necessary redistributable dependency binaries installed with GDK (such as XCurl.dll) to PlayFabMultiplayerSDK assets. Please enable necessary platforms (Standalone, GameCoreScarlett, GameCoreXboxOne) or select "Any Platform" in the Inspector window of Unity Editor for XCurl.dll.
• Go to the /Assets/PlayFabMultiplayerSDK/Prefabs folder and drag and drop the PlayfabMultiplayerEventProcessor prefab into your scene
• Note: PlayFabMultiplayer SDK is x64, so when you build Standalone (Windows) please build for x64.

For a detailed guide please check out Quickstart: PlayFab Multiplayer Unity Plugin