Sunday, 8 September 2013

Cross-Platform Game Center Matches between iOS & Mac?

Cross-Platform Game Center Matches between iOS & Mac?

I'm using GameKit in my game, which is built both as a Universal iOS app
and a Mac OSX app. As far as I can tell, there's no way to allow Mac users
to play against iOS users, because each of the two are sandboxed into
their respective app stores: Mac and iOS apps must each have their own
(unique) Bundle IDs.
I tried adding both the Mac and iOS apps to the same Game Center "group."
I am successfully able to see the same leaderboards from both the Mac and
iOS app. Unfortunately, GKTurnBasedMatch loadMatchesWithCompletionHandler
returns different matches for the same user on different platforms, and
users from Mac cannot seem to be matched with iOS (and vice-versa).
Is there any way to enable truly cross-platform support with GameKit, or
am I doomed to only allow Mac<->Mac and iOS<->iOS gameplay?

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