Beginning iOS Game Center and GameKit: For iOS, tvOS, and MacOS

© Kyle Richter and Beau G. Bolle 2022

K. Richter, B. G. BolleBeginning iOS Game Center and GameKithttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-7756-0_5

5. Matchmaking and Invitations

Kyle Richter¹  

(1)

Eagle River, AK, USA

 

Beginning with this chapter, and through the next few chapters, we will discuss how to add networking and multiplayer capabilities with Game Center, and later GameKit, into your app or game. Adding networking capability to your app is almost considered essential technology in the modern era. Virtually all modern software has some sort of networking component associated with it today, whether it is talking to an online service to retrieve or post information or talking directly to a peer device to exchange data.

In the following chapters, ...