2D Multiplayer game solutions

Hey,

I've made a simple 2d blackjack game.

I added working authentication/database using Firebase to handle player balances/login/registering etc... but now i'd like to make this a multiplayer game.

This game is ment to be played on phones only (at this moment atleast).

So ehm, where do i start? I think i need some kind of a server that all clients would connect to, and sync the actions, right?

What are my options? I did a bit of research, and saw Fusion by Photon (released in just 2021), which is better than PUN/BOLT by Photon. It offers a Shared Mode, and Host Client mode.
I dont want anyone to host the game i think, coz if the host has poor connection, everyone else suffers from it too.

The shared mode is simplier, but i heard you can cheat easier? Some guy dsid in yt vid idk.. but what i think i need is like a server to host it and everyone connects to it.

Also cheating i would like to be as hard as possible...

Whats the best solution for this?

Thanks in advance!

 

Photon fusion supports dedicated server mode. The issue will be that you will have to pay the server hosting + the photon cloud relay (which is more expensive for fusion)

The networking solution I use is Fish-Networking. Its free, it uses very low bandwidth, and is made for authoritative server games (It also can run player hosted and p2p games).

I think all of the networking solutions out there support 2d, since there is nothing really specific.

 

ill check it out, thanks!

 

Firebase's realtime database is sufficient for a multiplayer card game.

https://firebase.google.com/docs/database
https://medium.com/@ktamura_74189/h...using-only-firebase-as-a-backend-b5bb805c6543

 

woah never knew about firebase cloud functions! im going to go with this, seems alot easier. thank you alot!