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 nearly fell off our office chairs when watching this video by Google introducing ‘A new way to multitask’. As it was April 1st it is apparently an April’s Fool joke and it is a good one, but at second 42 two Photon powered games are featured in this video: Begone by Nplay and WGT by World Golf Tour. It...
We admit that we are proud of Photon, sure, but Photon is nothing without a great developer community doing stunning games with it. ‘Cubemen’ by 3Sprockets is a great example of such a game and therefore we were not suprised that the game not only won the GEE contest, but was also honored by Apple making it...
First my apologies to all Bob Marley fans out there. Guys, I simply could not stop myself to (mis-)quote one of his most famous song lines for the headline as it was the first thing that came into my mind when starting to write this post. The song says that people should stand up for...
Portland, OR – September 22 nd, 2011 – Exit Games today announced that its leading network engine Photon has been selected in a multi-title agreement by Codemasters to power the developer and publishers’ browser-based multiplayer online games, including the forthcoming F1 ONLINE The Game™. Codemasters will utilize Photon as its core network technology for multiple upcoming...
Portland, OR – August 4th, 2011 – Exit Games today announced that its leading network engine Photon has been selected by KranX Productions to power the network features of Nival’s Kings Bounty: Legions, a socialmassive multiplayer online game (MMOG). Once more Photon was chosen by a top-tier development studio due to its unparalleled and unique...
Portland, OR – July XX, 2011 – Exit Games today announced that it has entered into a distribution agreement with The9, the leading online game operator and developer in China. According to the agreement The9 will exclusively market and distribute Exit Games Photon to developers and publishers throughout China.
Portland, OR – July 13, 2011 – Exit Games today announced that its leading network engine and socket server ‘Photon’ is now fully integrated with Marmalade, the leading product for developers to build and distribute rich cross-platform applications quickly, easily and without compromise. Marmalade allows developers to write apps in standard C++ and deploy...
This time I prefer to let our customer Ticking Bomb Games speak for us: “We are 100% satisfied with Photon! It made our work not only much easier but also much faster. It simply offers the key features to build scalable MMOGs with Unity: reliable UDP and a socket-server that is extensible in C#. On top of that:...
Exit Games, the leading provider of network engines and Unity Studios, sister company of the leading 3D platform provider Unity, today announced a partnership to introduce the perfect product tandem for MMO game development with Unity: Legion and Photon. Legion provides a powerful MMOG development framework for Unity developers, which is perfectly complemented by Exit...
Ever wanted to know how to get started and what to consider when developing your own MMOG? 3D Buzz has started a class on exactly this subject. They chose Unity as underlying 3D engine, and – guess what – they chose Photon as their multiplayer backend technology. And this is what Jason Busby, founder of...