---
type: podcast
authors:
  - alex-patterson
  - brittney-postma
episode: 14
guests:
  - patrick-martin
recording_date: March 8, 2021 12:00 PM
season: 1
published: published
podcast: CodingCat.dev
chapters_done: true
cloudinary_convert: false
cover: https://media.codingcat.dev/image/upload/main-codingcatdev-photo/i6qzbmbxegit9nebc44s.png
devto: https://dev.to/codingcatdev/firestore-for-unity-and-c-26a4
excerpt: We talk with Patrick Martin from Firebase all about game development and how Firebase's Firestore is now available in Beta.
hashnode: https://hashnode.codingcat.dev/podcast-1-14-firestore-for-unity
picks:
  [
    {
      author: 'alex-patterson',
      name: 'Firebase Extension - Stripe Subscriptions',
      site: 'https://firebase.google.com/products/extensions/firestore-stripe-subscriptions'
    },
    {
      author: 'alex-patterson',
      name: 'Mecha Hampster',
      site: 'https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.fpl.mechahamster&hl=en&pli=1'
    },
    {
      author: 'brittney-postma',
      name: 'Add Firebase to your Unity project',
      site: 'https://firebase.google.com/docs/unity/setup'
    },
    { author: 'brittney-postma', name: 'NightwindCSS', site: 'https://nightwindcss.com/' },
    { author: 'patrick-martin', name: 'Loop Hero (game)', site: 'https://loophero.com/' },
    {
      author: 'patrick-martin',
      name: 'Flutter 2',
      site: 'https://developers.googleblog.com/2021/03/announcing-flutter-2.html'
    }
  ]
slug: 1-14-firestore-for-unity-c-plus-plus
spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/3RdXgoTUctaaHJoQRHglFP?si=oiG45aDBQ2-qZb8asFC1-w
start: March 31, 2021
title: Firestore for Unity and C++
youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Ju6klQ9k58
---

## Questions

1.  What is Unity?
2.  What games or other apps are written in C++?
3.  What is Cloud Firestore?
4.  Wasn’t Cloud Firestore already available for Unity and C++?
5.  What kind of games can be created using Firebase?

## Links

- [https://firebase.google.com/games](https://firebase.google.com/games)

- [https://github.com/firebase/quickstart-unity](https://github.com/firebase/quickstart-unity)

- [https://github.com/google/mechahamster](https://github.com/google/mechahamster)
- [Firebase Games](https://firebase.google.com/games)
- [Firebase Realtime vs. Firstore Database](https://firebase.google.com/docs/database/rtdb-vs-firestore)
- [Open Match 1.0](https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/gaming/open-match-1-0-ready-for-deployment-in-production)
- [https://www.cocos.com/en/creator](https://www.cocos.com/en/creator)
- [https://phaser.io/](https://phaser.io/)
- [https://www.cocos.com/en/creator](https://www.cocos.com/en/creator)
- [https://phaser.io/](https://phaser.io/)
