--- title: Should you make Singleplayer first and later convert to... description: Adding multiplayer support to a game after it was built as single-player is extremely difficult, according to this advice. Developers are urged to decide... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/should-you-make-singleplayer-first-and-later-convert-to-multiplayer-g3ona9icc twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Should you make Singleplayer first and later convert to multiplayer | daily.dev og:description: Adding multiplayer support to a game after it was built as single-player is extremely difficult, according to this advice. Developers are urged to decide... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/should-you-make-singleplayer-first-and-later-convert-to-multiplayer-g3ona9icc og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/g3OnA9iCc.png og:image:alt: Should you make Singleplayer first and later convert to multiplayer og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Should you make Singleplayer first and later convert to multiplayer **[Code Monkey](https://daily.dev/sources/codemonkeyunity)** · 1 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Adding multiplayer support to a game after it was built as single-player is extremely difficult, according to this advice. Developers are urged to decide upfront, at project start, whether a game will be single-player or multiplayer, since retrofitting multiplayer later is a very hard technical challenge unless the game is very simple. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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