Basic Lobby

Requirements

1. Unity 2018.3.4 or later. You can download the latest version of Unity here: https://unity3d.com/get-unity/download
2. A SocketWeaver Account. You can create a SocketWeaver Account for free here: https://portal.socketweaver.com

All accounts get 20GB of data for FREE every month.

What we are making

In this tutorial, we are going to make a basic lobby with the following features.

1. Custom player name
2. Custom room data
3. Player chat
4. Room chat
5. Team management
6. Room list with paging

We will show you the process step-by-step. By the time you finished reading this tutorial, you will be ready to start creating your own lobby interface and matchmaking logic.

Source Code

The source code of this tutorial is hosted at: https://github.com/SocketWeaver/lobby

The repository has two Unity Projects:

Lobby-start

We recommend you start with the Lobby-start starter project and follow the steps of the tutorial to get the most out of it.

Lobby-final

The final lobby project.

Community

If you have questions about the tutorial, join our discord server at: https://discord.gg/qXt7Bkf