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...
SpaceHub is a Photon powered collaboration platform and framework for virtual meetings, collaboration, classroom trainings or any custom immersive scenario. The framework is built in C#/Unity and fully customizable. Features like avatars with hand control, spatial voice, networked physics and a lot more are built-in providing a jump start for your own immersive projects. Interested...
UPDATE #2: Some information on v5 delay: right now, multiple regions of our public Photon Cloud are running on Photon Server v5 and everything runs stable and fine, closely monitored by our 24/7 operations team. There are some smaller issues we are working on before rolling v5 out to all our Photon Cloud regions. Once...
Photon Quantum is a new, disrupting multiplayer game engine and since its launch about 1.5 years ago many great teams joined to develop outstanding multiplayer games that provide a 100% fair, lag-free player experience. Selected references built with Photon Quantum: Battlelands Royale by Futureplay Lego Brawls by Red Games Bullet League by Funday Factory HeroVS...
Bots can be tremendously important for the success of multiplayer games. Todays player are extremely impatient and hardly willing to invest time into trying out a new game, especially on mobile platforms. No other player there to play against? Game abandoned, end of story. Although the value of bots is quite obvious on all platforms,...
Multiplayer games are super social no matter if you are playing with someone or against someone. This social factor includes competition which is a huge motivational factor in multiplayer game design. Players love competition: it is much more rewarding to win against another real player than to beat the AI in a singleplayer game. This...
This guest post was written by Jikhan Jung, founder and CEO at Subdream Studios, a social VR game studio founded in January 2017 by gaming industry veterans with experience in PC, mobile and VR. Ever since, Subdream have been making multiplayer VR games such as Mega Overload, Hell Dimensions etc. Galaga is the unforgettable game...
You have a uNet game and wonder how to port it over to PUN? We have a dedicated site in our online docs where we describe the porting process on the basis of Unity’s Network Meteoroid demo. Learn what aspects are very simple and where you need to pay special attention to get a satisfying...
At the annual Game Developer Conference, VIVE hosted a Developer Day where company executives and engineers spent the day sharing information on their newest developer tools, their platform strategy and their new partnership with Photon to make development of connected VR experiences simple. Enhancing VR experiences with multiplayer or multi-user features significantly helps to build...
This guest post was written by Can Olcer, co-founder of Kosmos School. Kosmos School offers live science classes in VR for teenagers. For example, they perform physics experiments to learn about gravity or engineer a rocket which they can then board and fly away with. All learning happens collaboratively (multiplayer, if you will). The classes...
Exciting news: Highroad Engine is now supporting PUN 2 out of the box. You can test it right away using the ready to use local and multi player project shipped with Highroad Engine, and switch at will between local, uNet and PUN 2 gameplays without even restarting the scene. https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/templates/systems/highroad-engine-73798 Give it a go, and...