Hello! I’ll cut to the chase here. I want to be able to shorten ID’s in a Local Multiplayer. For now, most IDs look something like this: fa21fb75-24e1-4799-916c-0e5fcee063a3. Now, in my game, you are greeted with a screen where you can copy your ID, paste an ID and connect with an ID (also the game generates an ID for you).
But the problem is I don’t have enough knowledge to simplify IDs to look something like “Q3D45” (basically like Among Us’ room codes). I know there are several posts about this subject, yet I can’t find a solution. From my research, I know that:
You can use a custom broker server to customize IDs, from there I get to this piece of code, but nobody knows how to make it work:
Then I also stumbled upon this: Clipboard functions not working in online html games - #9 by LeakySafe, and I quote: “You can store a long ID in firebase together with a short room name, or short representative code. Just like you would store a high score. Users can get the long ID code through Firebase without needing to copy paste anything.”
Nobody replied how to and I was just going to ask there, but I already posted in another (old) article and nobody responded, so I just figured to post everything here and gather the information.
I thought this could be useful, and if anyone needs details about my game or something about how in functions I would love to explain, but I need to solve this problem. And I think some other people do too. Thanks!
But I don’t know if it’s in FireBase’s basic functions to do this, or if I’d had to go into a more obscure, detailed tutorial of it. I don’t even know how enough it works or what it does to ask about it. Can you recommend any specific tutorials?
Alright so I know what FireBase is and does thanks a tutorial. I’ve been following the Leadeboard tutorial (GDevelop Online Leaderboard Tutorial - YouTube) to know a little bit about FireBase, but I don’t think I want (or need) to add a collection, and from that point on the tutorial is dedicated to the Leaderboard. So I know a little bit about FireBase and theoretically have it implemented in my project, but I don’t know how to use it to shorten the IDs. That part is still an enigma. Could you help me with that?
PD: I pasted the “apiKey”, “authDomain” and those parameters in the FB section of setting of the project, that’s what I mean by “implemented”.
Okay, I spent a few hours digging around but hit a dead-end. I’m sure it’s possible but just really hard. Then I remembered this post Any ways to make the P2P ID simpler?. It says that if I have my own server I can control the ID generation process, which is exactly what I want to do! Is there any way you could help me? Thanks!
Where can I ask? I joined but only see: Welcome, Announcements, Mobile Game Jam and the Main Stage, but can’t reply on any of them. Is there something I need to do??
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. Thanks for the help!!