Hello, 

I am developing an infinite runner style game where I want to create a Versus mode where players can challange their friends, or other players by their id to play a match against.

I was able to achieve this by creating an event to invite a player, and in its cloud code I could manually create a match by using

Spark.getMultiplayer().createMatchById([challengedPlayerId, Spark.getPlayer().getPlayerId()]);

 It worked pretty well, but there are a number of scenarios where this approach might not work well:

• After inviting a friend, players can not cancel the invitation as far as I know as there is no way to delete a match
• I used messages to let the challanged friend know of the invitation, and show an accept / decline dialog based on op code after receiveing it. I also could not figure out how to delete these messages if the player inviting the friend cancels.

var pendingMatch = Spark.getConfig().getMatchConfig("VERSUS_MODE").createPendingMatch("group", 1, [Spark.getPlayer(), opponent]);

the pendingMatches collection in the NoSQL Explorer remained empty, even though the pendingMatch variable has been initialized. Another strange thing was that the  

pendingMatch.getMatchedPlayers().length

 call returned 1 regardless that I used an array with a size of 2.

After starting a FindPendingMatchesRequest with the invited player I got a {"match":"NOT_IN_PROGRESS"} error.

I'm not sure if I'm even trying the right way, could you help me how I should implement such invitation based real time games? Also I found that GameSparks supports Challanges but I could not understand how I am supposed to use it, or even if they are supposed to be used alongside with matches.

Thanks in advance

Balázs

Hi Patrick, 

Thanks for the response.

I would like to create the versus mode in a way that players can play in the same level at the same time and they can see each other as well (but cannot really interact witheach other).

I understand that this would require Game Sparks Realtime. But as far as I know Matches don't have the invite - accept / decline mechanism that I would like to have, so I implemented this part using Challanges. 

The plan is that as soon as the other player accepts and the challange gets to RUNNING state I create a match for the challange participants.

Am I going in the right direction?

Currently I have the invitation and accept / decline flow implemented, so I can get a challange to running, declined or withdrawn state, but I don't know how to create match or pending match based on a challange.

Any update on this one?

Hi,

I want to implement real time multiplayer feature in my slot machine game using GameSparks SDK on Android platform. Actually, I have already implemented real-time multiplayer feature using google's sdk. It works fine if a player knows id's of other opponents(i.e. other players) to invite.

The faced challenge with google's sdk is:

If a player is interested to play the multiplayer tournament but he/she does not know any single id of player to invite the player to join the tournament then he/she will choose auto-match making option, auto-match making will fail if nobody is online at that time to join the session. Google sdk is not having baut system(i.e. Virtual opponent feature), which is very much needed for our user base.

So my question are:

1 - Does gamesparks SDK have baut feature(i.e. virtual opponent feature )?

2 - Would gamesparks SDK give 100% guarantee of successful auto-match making?

3 - If player does not know any single id to invite the opponent then how would GameSparks deal with that situation?

Please reply asap so that I can to start my development process soon.

Thanks.

Glad you got that covered Raj :D

Any info on the original question?