Developing a Clash Royale clone

I am developing a mobile application similar to Clash Royale. Due to a lack of time, I will hire a programmer. I wanted to ask for your help to build up together a brief (BRIEF, simple, roughly) production plan that lists the important tasks about scripting. I would use this document to guide me when looking for people to hire. Tasks such as:

A* Pathfinding scripts
UI Behavior
Etc

I will use Unity to develop this game and I am open to the possibility of buying script assets, although I would still need to know in detail what needs to be developed before buying the assets.


I am almost done with the offline parts of the game. Those are more or less:

- Cinematics manager (i think it's a very simple script)
- A* Pathfinding
- UI Behaviour
- Mobs manager
- Server-client managment for all big files
- Enemy AI (my game will have an AI vs mode)
- Player info & Deck Managment (another database side of the project)

But i am a complete ignorant about the online topics required. I mean... How to make a server hosted 1 vs 1 player duel.
What are the main tasks for something like this?

Thanks, people!

 

Are you trying to hire a developer to create the entire game, or just some components of it? A multiplayer match based game is going to need someone with network code experience. That probably should be your #1 requirement. The entire project falls apart if the network code breaks.

Also, don't let the simplicity of Clash Royale fool you. This is going to be a very large project for a single developer. Possibly years.

 

In addition to that, it's always a huge challenge to turn a non-multiplayer into a multiplayer game, if that wasn't kept in mind during development of the offline mode.

 

My idea is hire a developer to work in the the full game.

That is a good advice. Thanks, Suddoha.

 

How went the project? Im trying to do this aswell xD but i was using very primitive ways of moving units like vector2.distance and movetowards, and thats giving me slight desyncronization problems and im too lazy to make an a* and see if that works, becose i feel thats going to have the same sync errors so im a little bit stuck, i would like to know if you fixed that kind of things... for your question about what do you need for make the multiplayer game, well.. im not an expert as u can see xD but i can tell probably you need a matchmaking system, and a disconnections handler that check if both players are refreshing games, also a sync handler (my nightmare) and a comunication handler that writes players actions and inputs, and reads other player actions and inputs.