Game engines such as Unity and the Unreal Engine simplify the development process and allow you to start developing quickly. In this chapter, you will create a simple game in Unity, which will help you see the backend features discussed in the following chapters in action.
First, however, you learn about and set up some key technologies that you will use throughout this book—Unity, PlayFab, Terraform, and Azure, to name the most important ones.
Then, you will set up Mirror Networking (or Mirror), which enables the basic networking functionality ...