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 just released a new developer tutorial on our download page which extends Photon to buffer objects inside a room and update clients with their type, position and rotation. This one is especially interesting for everyone using Unity3d as it’s client side is Unity-only. Of course you can learn a bit from it for any...
What were the reasons to use an online game engine/network middleware? Matt: The use of middleware let us leverage someone else’s expertise. It got us up and running faster, and leaves us more time to focus on making a great gameplay experiences. What were the main reasons to choose Exit Games Photon for “The Mummy”? Matt: First, Photon’s proven...
Online Features of Massively Multiplayer Game (MMOG) ‘The Mummy’ Will be Developed on Top of High Performance Socket Server and Development Framework Exit Games Photon (Portland, USA) – June, 2010 –– Exit Games, the leading provider of multi-platform online game engines and services, today announced that its network engine, Photon, has been selected by the...
We are super proud that Photon was chosen by Bigpoint and the game’s developer Schell Games, a US-based studio led by renowned game designer and author Jesse Schell, to power the network features of The Mummy. Large scale MMOs like The Mummy Online which is based on the famous film franchise and published by the...
In March we mentioned that we had developed an SDK for Unity3D, so that games using the new 3d engine could integrate our multiplayer technology seamlessly. Shortly after that, when we released our streamlined product “Photon“, game developer Cmune chose Photon (its Unity SDK) for their “Paradise Paintball” game. Reworking the multiplayer functionality from a...
End of May was a happy date for brain exercise game lovers. Finally, the hugely successfull “Dr. Kawashima” series well-known from Nintendo DS finally became available for PC and Mac. Developed by Munich-based game developer Chimera, the game features not only tons of puzzles and brain training exercises but for the first time users can...
We found this article on USA Today, featuring the World Golf Tour game and the fact that WGT is working together with USGA to present the virtual championship on the Bethpage Black Course. “World Golf Tour provides the most realistic simulation of golf courses I have ever seen online,” PGA Tour veteran Ryuji Imada said....
I was asked at the GDC several times how Photon differentiates from competition (SmartFox was most mentioned, Electro Server second) so here is an quick overview table: Although this is just a very basic overview it already shows the advantages of Photon: (reliable) UDP, C++ server, extensible in C#, support of any data types.
Great news for online gamers and everyone who had an eye on development: Abandon Interactive‘s massive multiplayer online battling game “Freaky Creatures” has passed beta and is now officially live! The game’s release is accompanied by a huge marketing campaign, selling the actual figurines in toy stores including a USB-stick with the game included: Starter...
Just some short success stories: In January we inked a new deal with Konami. After they used Neutron for Dance Dance Revolution, they will implement Neutron for an upcoming title as well. We have signed another contract with a gaming start-up led by experienced games managers who recently sold their first venture. I would LOVE...