Send message to list of users who are not in same room?

Atif

According to the documentation, users can't communicate in the Lobby. Please suggest me a way to handle the following situation.

Our game is a real-time match-3 RPG. A room is generated to have a battle between two random players.

Now we are going to introduce the guilds. A player can send a request to the guild members for a friendly battle. Similarly a user can send a notification to his/her friends for a battle. How we can send these notifications using the Photon infrastructure?

I can create a room for my guild members, but every time I will have to left this room for battle with other random player and join it back after battle, seems not a neat solution. Also I can't have all my Facebook friends in same room.

I am looking for a way to send some notifications to a particular user or list of users. Is it possible within PUN?

Thanks

JohnTube

Hi @Atif,

There are different solutions:
1. If the target platform is mobile, try Push Notifications. They are not 100% "reliable" though.
2. Implement a web based solution: send messages, save messages, poll messages using HTTP.
3. [Not recommended] Have an extra Photon client that stays on the guild room.
4. Use Photon Chat. You will have to handle an extra connection.
5. Use Facebook for this.

JohnTube

Hi @Atif,

There are different solutions:
1. If the target platform is mobile, try Push Notifications. They are not 100% "reliable" though.
2. Implement a web based solution: send messages, save messages, poll messages using HTTP.
3. [Not recommended] Have an extra Photon client that stays on the guild room.
4. Use Photon Chat. You will have to handle an extra connection.
5. Use Facebook for this.

Atif

JohnTube said:

5. Use Facebook for this.

How using Facebook?