Technical deep dive into Photon’s MMO concept car For 7 years we have been quietly building an MMO backend at Photon. Time to talk about it. It is our “concept car”: not a product, not an SDK, but real tech running today. This is part 2 of an extensive deep dive and you can find...
Over the last years we repeatedly helped our customers with their projects. We advised on architecture, instructed load-test, developed custom packages, built several proof-of-concepts or simply helped finding the best partners and services. Photon Consulting’s mission is to always empower our customer. That means we help your team to master specific challenges and tasks to...
Hybrid Wars lets you command and upgrade your own arsenal of futuristic mechs to take on wave after wave of enemy forces. Jump into a classic top-down shooter experience as you obliterate over 50 types of enemy and team up with friends to cause more mayhem. Harness an arsenal of diverse machines—Bomber and Assault mechs,...
Dear Photon Developer, On our mission to make multiplayer simple, we added additional regions to our Photon Cloud and explain why we think that our CCU based pricing is part of that mission. Read on, be aware of Exploding Kittens or meet and discuss with us at Casual Connect USA next week… New Photon...
We are often being asked why our subscription plans for Photon Cloud products (Realtime, PUN, Chat, Voice) are based on concurrent users (=CCU) and our answer is always the same: because we strongly believe that it is the most transparent and fairest model for our customers. Read the following why we think so and see a comparison...
Lots of discussions with customers about the difference between Photon Realtime and Turnbased combined with different market definitions about synchronous and asynchronous games led to the decision to merge Photon Turnbased into Photon Realtime. Therefore we discontinue Photon Turnbased on May 25th, 2016, as a standalone product and move all existing Turnbased apps to Photon Realtime....
This guest post was written by Raúl Pérez Bernabé, Lead Unity developer at From The Bench. From The Bench is one of the biggest sports games development companies in the world, with the biggest official franchise of football clubs including Real Madrid, Chelsea, AC Milan, Borussia Dortmund and with an official license of the NBA. So...
Photon Server enabled real-time battles in “Famista Dream Match” – A remake of the pioneer battle game. Ever since “Professional Baseball Family Stadium” was released in 1986, the Famista series has been loved by a range of generations. “Famista Dream Match” is the latest game in the series. The online real-time battles in the game...
This guest post was written by Sebastian Erben, co-founder of indie studio Bit2Good. Bit2Good produces handcrafted games independently since 2011. Their most current project is ‘Goggles – World of Vaporia’, a vehicle combat shooter set in a Steampunk styled world called Vaporia. Goggles was initially developed as a single player experience and was then transformed into...
This guest post was written by Eric Lajeunesse, an indie developer from Montreal, Canada. Ever wanted to step into a real soldier’s shoes as a crazy warrior with a shotgun, a stealth attacker or an agile sniper? Natural Born Soldier gives you this opportunity from your mobile as it delivers precisely what you expect as a competitive...
This guest post was written by Hayden Lee, Founder & Software Engineer at Convrge. Convrge is a virtual world to hang out with your friends. Using the Oculus Rift you can get a sense of actually being with people that is unmatched across any other medium. Activities in Convrge include watching YouTube videos, Twitch.TV, rockin’ out...