There's a long-running joke among game devs about how nobody pushes the magical "add multiplayer" button that plenty of ill-informed game fans seem to believe exists. But now, one developer has created this mythical button for thousands of indie games - sort of, at least.
Gomps, the Generic Online Multiplayer System, is an in-development tool that will be able to add "basic multiplayer functionality" to any Unity game. Unity is a game engine that's been quite popular with indie developers over the past decade, powering thousands - in fact, hundreds of thousands - of different titles. While the engine has gained an unfortunate reputation among some players for the amount of low-effort Steam shovelware it's powered, Unity is also the backbone of acclaimed games like Return of the Obra Dinn, Outer Wilds, Tunic, Firewatch, Cuphead, and many more.
