In short, Forge Networking is a free and open source multiplayer game (multi-user) networking system that has a very good integration with the Unity game engine. You wanna make a multiplayer game or real time multi-user application? This is the library for you.
Welcome to the most innovative networking solution (which works with the Unity game engine). Forge's network bandwidth is un-beatable, it's performance out classes other solutions, its flexibility is in a league of its own and of course, as always, no CCU limits ever. Forge Networking is an open source networking solution built in C#. It is completely multi-threaded and was designed to work both inside and outside of the Unity Game Engine but mainly in conjunction with Unity. To get started, check out the links listed below in this readme.
- Unity multiplayer games/applications
- Unity independent applications
- User hosted servers
- Run servers on Windows, OSX, Raspberry Pi, and/or Linux
- Developer hosted servers
- MMO, RTS, FPS, MOBA, you name it, Forge does it
- Master Servers, NAT Hole punching, Web Servers, Cache servers, all the servers!
- Server to server communication, yup
- Spin up servers on demand, check
- Tons of other stuff that I won't list otherwise I will go on forever, yes indeed
If you can name it, Forge most likely can do it :), it is built on some basic principles which makes any idea a possibility.
Forge Networking is a networking solution built with the Unity game engine in mind. However, this is actually the 2nd version of Forge so it has some interesting properties. The first original Forge (classic) was built directly inside of Unity and was very tightly integrated with Unity. Once we learned everything we could from that version we opened up a blank Visual Studio project and began work on Forge Networking remastered. Forge Networking Remastered was completely developed independently of Unity, it was tested and debugged in a C# project. Once it was working, we made it so that Unity could use it. This means that you can easily create native C# applications which run on Forge to support your games and applications such as Relay servers, NAT hole punching servers, chat servers, master servers, cache servers, websocket servers, you name it! Forge was developed in a way that makes it easy for you to do serialization of data in any way that you want. This allows you to make the security of your project as secure as you want or as fast as you need.
Unity Package:
- Download the unitypackage
- Open the package in Unity
- Done, you are ready to start working with doc examples
Git Source Code:
- Clone the source
- Open the
BeardedManStudios/BeardedManStudios.sln - Build it (See note below if you get errors)
- Open
Forge Networking Remastered Unityin Unity - Right click on
Bearded Man Studios Incand export a unity package - Follow the steps above listed under
Unity Package:starting with step #2
Note Sometimes when you try to build from GitHub you will get an error about missing references. To fix this you need to open the Unity project for Forge Networking. Then open any script inside your IDE by double click it. This will force Unity to update the .csproj file for the Unity project. After this you can close that instance of the IDE and return to the BeardedManStudios.sln and continue back at step 3 above.
Discord - Join us and the growing community, for talking about Forge Networking as well as just networking in general. Even if you don't exactly use Forge Networking in your project you can get a ton of insight from this community :)
Alternative (older) Unity Package Download V24.3
- Make pull requests :D
- Any donations are much appreciated <3
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