Apple Game Frameworks and Technologies

Manage Multiplayer Matches

One of the neat things about Game Center and GameKit is that they include everything you need to set up and manage multiplayer games, well, almost everything—you need to supply the game data. However, before getting too deep into the game data, let’s cover the heart of turn-based matches: the GKTurnBasedMatch object.

The GKTurnBasedMatch object is what you use to implement a turn-based match. This object, which your game never creates directly, contains important information about the match. This object uses a store-and-forward approach to share your game’s match data between its match participants.

The GKTurnBasedMatch object has a few key properties:

• participants: Holds information about the “players” participating ...