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Future Realities Summit: Developing Action-Packed Multiplayer Gameplay for Mobile AR
Ask any gameplay programmer and most will agree that multiplayer games are the most difficult to develop. So why not build a multiplayer game that adds the additional technical challenge of augmented reality? What could possibly go wrong? A lot, it turns out.nnThe combined challenges of networking a competitive fighting game, syncing game data across two real-world spaces, the performance limitations of mobile, all with no control over the player camera and environment create a recipe for game development chaos. This talk will dive into the solutions the Jadu team developed to overcome the chaos and ship a first-of-its-kind multiplayer augmented reality fighting game.
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