Hey, I was thinking of making a multiplayer game but the GDevelop Multiplayer lobby system will not work for it, I was curious if a Firebase database could work instead.
I would plan on using an account/progress system using Firebase as well as the multiplayer aspect with variables being checked each second or so. Would this work?
Firebase is a database, not a server. You will want to look into a web socket server for real time updates and server-client syncing. Firebase is best for things like persistent storage, not for server-side logic.
Okay, the way I wanted it was to have an account/automatic backup system (firebase) and have games you could play with others to earn stuff (which I could probably try to use gdevelop multiplayer lobbies for instead, would just be hard if there’s multiple games)
Firebase can be used to create a multiplayer game. For example, there is a multiplayer game template from Vegetato that uses Firebase.
https://vegetato.itch.io/impostor-alert-template
The template uses the THNK framework for multi-player which is a better option for OP