In this course you will learn online game development and you will learn and build multiplayer third person shooter game using unity game engine.

A multiplayer video game is a video game in which more than one person can play in the same game environment at the same time, either locally on the same computing system (couch co-op), on different computing systems via a local area network, or via a wide area network, most commonly the Internet.

Unity allows you to import and assemble assets, write code to interact with your objects, create or import animations for use with an advanced animation system, and much more.

Photon Unity Networking (PUN) is a Unity package for multiplayer games. Flexible matchmaking gets your players into rooms where objects can be synced over the network. RPCs, Custom Properties or "low level" Photon events are just some of the features. The Photon engine works exceptionally well with Unity, too, making the methods in which to develop games even broader.

Unity is great for creating both 2D and 3D games. Calling it the life of the cross-platform party in our article on the best game engines, we did not prevaricate − Unity is the best cross-platform option, covering all known modern platforms.