Hi,
does anyone of you have experience with the Firebase->Firestore feature?
I would like to use the Firestore to create a database to use it in “realtime” for a rather slow round based board game. It’s purpose would be to create a new data set each time a game session will be created (lobby like system).
But i can’t find anything about creating a database in the wiki
https://wiki.gdevelop.io/gdevelop5/all-features/firebase/firestore
Do you have any idea if it can work?
Thanks!
It works, but you need to monetize your game in order for it to be plausible.
There is a limit to the number of free daily write/read/deleite actions at firestore, and that limit is very easy to reach.
Thanks for the hints Digi.
I figured out that because of the very limited read/write/delete actions in Firestore it makes more sense to go with Realtime Database. I don’t need microsecond read/writes to the database so it is OK. The download amount is limited to 10GB without payment, so for the beginning it will do the job. Later it’s 1$/GB which is the point where it would be necessary to monetize.
The no-cost variant has only one database, so it’s not possible to exactly create one. If you switch to the blaze plan, you can have more databases. However, in GDevelop i still don’t see the option to create one and i think it’s OK.
In case some of you are wondering how to make new fields in the database, you could go like this:
This would add all the structures (including the root “Players”) if not already present in the database. VariableStrings can be easily used in the path string.
