Penerapan Sistem Multiplayer Kompetitif Player Versus Player(Pvp) pada Game Super English

Abstract

The current trend in the gaming industry is leaning more towards multiplayer games because they are more appealing than singleplayer games. This research aims to implement an effective competitive multiplayer system’s architecture. Implementation aims to provide a more interactive experience because it involves multiple players in real time. In this study, implementation was carried out on the “Super English” study case with primary method of research being literature studies and official Unity documentation. Developments of the game used Unity Engine and Unity Netcode for GameObjects framework, Gaming Services from Unity to develop lobby system, while Flask technology was used as the game server. Hosting is done on the Google Cloud Platform environment with the Compute Engine to run game servers. Testing is done through metric measurements to evaluate the efficiency of the system. Metric measurement measures the memory usage while any multiplayer session is active. Memory usage affected by number of clients in a session and the number of concurrent multiplayer session. Metric measurements reveals that every multiplayer session uses roughly 156.50 MiB with an extra of approximately 1.75 MiB for subsequents clients.With multiplayer feature that offers new ways to interact in the game, the game is no longer monotonous.