Online gaming with Unity

Unity is a cross-platform game engine and comprehensive set of tools developed by Unity Technologies. It supports both 2D and 3D applications on a variety of desktop, mobile, console, and AR/VR platforms. Because it is based on .NET, its primary scripting API is C#.

Unity provides an IDE called the Unity editor. In the Unity editor, you can develop and compile applications that include the Unity runtime for a variety of target devices. Available build targets include Linux, macOS, Windows, Android, iOS, PlayStation 4 and 5, and web servers meant to support browser-based clients via HTML5.

Dedicated servers

A subtype of the Linux, macOS, and Windows build targets is called a dedicated server. The term dedicated refers to the fact that they serve no other function than to host common components of a shared game – before the advent of this model, one player out of a group would have to host these shared elements on their PC while simultaneously...