Dedicated Server for 1v1 Gameplay

A lot of people use Photon for multiplayer games. You could of course choose the rocky path and make your own game server using socket.io... As for the database to store the users information.. you can get a plugin from the asset store "BestHTTP" and link out to your own website where you store the information..

I use NodeJS for my website stuff... If you take the NodeJS route you might want to google

• NodeJS > Which is the basic web server.

• Express > A framework for NodeJS which makes it much simplier and faster to code.

• Passport > For allowing users to sign into your website using google or facebook or whatever

• MongoDB > The database choosen amongst javascript developers because it doesn't use SQL which sucks in everyones opinion... (at least mine)

• Moongoose > A framework that makes working with MongoDB super easy. Socket.IO > If you don't want to use Photon.

The easiest route is a service like Playfab and networking with Photon Bolt or regular Photon.

For one vs one matches, one person could easily host the match on their PC and Photon tutorials show this. If you want to eliminate cheating (even from one of the players hosting) then you could use Playfab Game Servers, or Amazon Gamelift but that is significantly more complex.

The most complex route would be hosting your own custom dedicated server whether using Photon with Playfab or the fully custom code route suggested above (that is the most complicated)

@holyPraline Here's an example websocket server and Unity game client: https://github.com/hsadler/unity-websocket-multiplayer