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...
We recently introduced the Custom Authentication feature for the Photon Cloud that makes adding authentications methods to your Cloud app much easier and secure. Now we have added a turn-key method for Facebook and are working on further methods that we will release over time. You can read more in our Facebook Custom Authentication online...
When I read the latest Unity Newsletter I saw the feature of “Gun Monkeys” by Size Five Studios and clicked on the link to the game’s trailer. Wow! That looked great and was multiplayer realtime action. First I thought “damn!” this game would have been perfect for Photon Cloud, so I mailed with Dan Marshall from...
The Unity Web Player is currently installed on over 200M computers and Facebook is a great way to get players playing and connecting with each other. Recently Unity announced a close collaboration with Facebook that makes launching Unity games on Facebook much easier. According to Unity’s blog, Facebook is currently deploying a new Web Player...
Tokyo, Japan, March 21, 2013 GMO Internet Group company, GMO Cloud K.K. (Japan) today announces that it is partnering with German game engine company Exit Games GmbH to bring to Japan the widely-used Photon Cloud, a popular SaaS network engine for building scalable multi-player games and applications supporting PC, Mac, browser, mobile and cross-platform development....
… ok, ok, not really, but at least indirectly by featuring the AppTag Laser Gun that “turns iPhones and Androids into augmented reality laser tag gun sights”, says Engadget or brings “first person shooter gaming for the real world” to quote Hex3, the creator of the AppTag. The whole project started with a successful funding campaign...
Photon Cloud provides global hosting centers since a little while, but it took us another little while to make this feature accessible for everyone. Finally: Photon Cloud officially supports US, Europe, S.E. Asia as ‘regions’. Japan and S.Korea will follow soon. Simply use one of the following URIs as the entry point in your game’s...
New top references for the Photon Cloud: Glu Mobile’s recently launched two multiplayer games in their Photon Private Cloud: ‘Indestructible‘ is a 4-player realtime action game with stunning retina graphics and ‘Eternity Warriors 2‘, a fantasy action game with co-op multiplayer. Photon Private Cloud helps Glu to easily launch such multiplayer games on a global scale without taking care of servers, latency...
“If you are making multiplayer games you should definitely look at this [Photon] stuff.” Mr. Helgason, CEO of Unity, himself said so during his keynote at this years Unite 2012. Go, watch and hear it here. (Photon praise starts at 0:14:28).
‘playMaker‘ by Hutong Games is one of the best selling tools in Unity’s Asset Store and that comes for a reason: by its super-intuitive visual state editor it empowers designer and artists to create their own games without even knowing how to program while it is also a great help for experienced developers to e.g. quickly...
I know it is a buzz word, yes, but I think it is really a Win-Win situation: The Photon Cloud makes it so easy to develop and run online games that anyone who wants to can now create successful multiplayer online games. That’s exactly what the folks at Xlabz Technologies have done with ‘Sketch W...