Generate Player IDs
Amazon GameLift uses a player session to represent a player connected to a game session. A player session must be created each time a player connects to a game session. When a player leaves a game, the player session ends and is not reused.
Amazon GameLift provides a file called Lobby.cpp in the Amazon Lumberyard
sample project
MultiplayerSample that demonstrates how to
generate a new, random ID number for every player in every new game session. You are
not
required to use the sample code; we provide it as an example. You can also rewrite
the code
to persist your own unique, non-personally identifiable player IDs.
The following sample code in Lobby.cpp randomly generates unique
player IDs:
bool includeBrackets = false; bool includeDashes = true; string playerId = AZ::Uuid::CreateRandom().ToString<string>(includeBrackets, includeDashes);
You can view player sessions by Player ID in the AWS Management Console for Amazon GameLift. For more information on player sessions, see View Data on Game and Player Sessions.
