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Unity Multiplayer Games
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Unity Multiplayer Games

by Alan R. Stagner
December 2013
Beginner
242 pages
4h 23m
English
Packt Publishing
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Working with BigDB

Player.IO provides a database service known as BigDB. The objects can be saved to BigDB and loaded from BigDB, and there is also a concept of "ownership" of a database entry (for instance, you can configure databases so that players are only allowed to modify their own DB entries).

Both the server and the client can access BigDB. Note that development servers have the same permissions as the player—be aware of this, as restricting player permissions will also restrict developer permissions.

Note

Note that BigDB is stored on Player.IO servers, not the local development server. The data can be viewed from the admin panel on the website. This data is stored per-game (for instance, so you cannot access the data for other games). Also ...

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