Overview - Joinable sessions with peer-to-peer - (Unreal Engine module)

Last updated on October 24, 2024

Introduction

A match session allows the players to directly create a game session and join a specific game session. In this module, you will learn how players can create, browse, and join a game session using peer-to-peer (P2P).

Prerequisites

To complete this module, you will need:

• To have completed the following module:

  • Introduction to Session

• The Byte Wars tutorialmodules branch checked out in your local Byte Wars Unreal project repository.

• To have force enabled this module. You can do this by adding the following code to the Config/DefaultEngine.ini file:

  [AccelByteTutorialModules]
  +ForcedEnabledModules=TutorialModule:MATCHSESSIONP2PESSENTIALS
  ...

Learning objectives

At the end of this module, you will know how to implement:

• Creating a game session with P2P
• Browsing and joining player-created game sessions with P2P

Preview

At the end of this module, your project will look like the images below.

• Creating a game session.

  

• Browsing and joining a game session.