Overview - Play with party - (Unreal Engine module)

Last updated on October 24, 2024

Introduction

Once you have a party of friends, you will want to play together. In this module, you will learn how to implement joining a Byte Wars match together with your party using AccelByte Gaming Services (AGS).

Prerequisites

In order to complete this module, you will need:

• To have completed the following module:

  • Introduction to party

• 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:PLAYINGWITHPARTY
  ...

Learning objectives

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

• Joining matchmaking with your party.
• Joining game sessions with your party.

Preview

At the end of this module, your Byte Wars will look like the images below:

• After matchmaking with your party:

  

  Log output:

  LogPlayingWithParty: Log: UPlayWithPartySubsystem_Starter::OnStartPartyMatchmakingComplete Party matchmaking started.
  LogPlayingWithParty: Log: UPlayWithPartySubsystem_Starter::OnPartyMatchmakingComplete Party matchmaking found. Currently joining the match.
  LogPlayingWithParty: Log: UPlayWithPartySubsystem_Starter::OnJoinPartyGameSessionComplete Success to join party game session.

• After joining a game session with your party:

  

  Log output:

  LogPlayingWithParty: Log: UPlayWithPartySubsystem_Starter::OnCreatePartyGameSessionComplete Success to create party game session.
  LogPlayingWithParty: Log: UPlayWithPartySubsystem_Starter::InvitePartyMembersToJoinPartyGameSession Send party game session invitation to: a247f4685e124bddbb0262cdc62cec29.
  LogPlayingWithParty: Log: UPlayWithPartySubsystem_Starter::OnJoinPartyGameSessionComplete Success to join party game session.

• After browsing matches with your party:

  

  Log output:

  LogPlayingWithParty: Log: UPlayWithPartySubsystem_Starter::OnJoinPartyGameSessionComplete Success to join party game session.
  LogPlayingWithParty: Log: UPlayWithPartySubsystem_Starter::InvitePartyMembersToJoinPartyGameSession Send party game session invitation to: a247f4685e124bddbb0262cdc62cec29.