I am making a Tic Tac Toe multiplayer game, and as soon as I make a move, I am calling an Azure Function to validate the move. I have some confusion regarding the turn update of this match. How can I send a turn update event to the other player in that match through an Azure Function? Is it possible to do? I haven't found examples regarding this. If it's possible, could you guide me on how to achieve it?,
There are multiple ways to implement this and SOUTHWORKS provides two samples:
https://github.com/southworks/playfab-samples/tree/master/multiplayer-tic-tac-toe
https://github.com/southworks/playfab-samples/tree/master/p2p-tic-tac-toe
You can either use Shared Group Data or PlayFab Party to notify the turn update. Personally, I'd recommend using PlayFab Party as with this way, there will be no need to poll the game state.
It seems you want to implement a turn-based game, you could use Shared Group Data with AzureFunction to do that. You may refer to Using Shared Group Data - PlayFab | Microsoft Learn. As for “send turn update event to other player”, PlayFab doesn’t provide such feature for you to inform other player of next turn. For how players know which player's turn it is, you could store the player of the current turn in Shared Group Data and update this data in the cloud script after each turn, and then let the client poll the shared group data to know whose turn it is.
On each frame, the client needs to check the shared group data to see if their turn has been updated ?
Since the Get Shared Group Data API has a rate limit of 200 calls per 2 minutes, you may check the shared group data based on this rate limit.
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