The folks at VisionPunk have been working hard on adding Photon Unity Networking to their Ultimate FPS package and are now inviting UFPS developers to join the free closed beta of their UFPS Photon Multiplayer Starter Kit. Not a UFPS dev yet? The next few days will be an excellent opportunity to pick up your UFPS license if...
This guest post was written by Sam Watts, Game Producer at Tammeka Games. Tammeka is a new indie start-up, focussing on VR games first and foremost. Formed in early 2014 by ex-developers from Black Rock and NCsoft, having previously worked on AAA games titles such as Pure, Split/Second, Moto GP, Guild Wars, Aion and City...
This guest post was written by Roel Ezendam, Co-Founder & Game Coder for ‘Action Henk’ at indie studio RageSquid. Action Henk is a toystalgic speedrunning platformer about managing momentum, acceleration and friction while running, jumping and sliding through tricky tracks & elaborate constructions. Take control of the heroic Henk as he races against players around the globe,...
This guest post was written by Sebastian Dorda, Technical Director and Developer for ‘Das Tal’ at indie studio Fairytale Distillery. ‘Das Tal’ is a fast-paced Sandbox MMORPG that focuses on player interaction. Full Loot and Open PvP create a game of ‘risk vs. reward’ where you weigh up your options before engaging others. PvP is never restricted,...
Photon backends and websites are not affected by the “Heartbleed Bug” in OpenSSL (http://heartbleed.com/). We do not use OpenSSL or any tool based on OpenSSL in any of our customer facing services. However, one of our internal source control systems was affected. A security patch was already applied. Although it is considered very unlikely that our...
Partnership kicks off with Game Developer Events in Japan, Malaysia and Thailand. Tokyo, Japan – December 16, 2013 GMO Internet Group company, GMO CLOUD K.K. today announces that it has concluded an exclusive partnership agreement with a German company, Exit Games GmbH. Under the new partnership effective October 2013, GMO CLOUD will provide the Photon...
Our partner GMO Cloud will host some great game jams in Thailand at the Rangsit University, Nov 29 – Dec 1, and in Malaysia at Exabytes Office in Puchong, Dec 14 -15.
We are proudly sponsoring the Global GameCraft event series. GameCraft is a games jam event designed around building the gaming community by aiming to create events which allow game-makers to meet, share ideas, have fun, compete for prizes and most importantly make games. The event schedule is currently as follows, but check by their website...
We recently launched Photon Unity Networking (PUN+) and are super happy that the package immediately climbed on #1 in Unity’s App Store in Top Grossing ‘Networking’ category. Yippee! After the launch we had many support requests which we want to summarize for all of you by this FAQ. If you have purchased PUN+ and want to ‘activate’...
We are super happy to announce that Photon Unity Networking PLUS (PUN+) is now available in Unity’s Asset Store. That’s why we call it PLUS: > No Unity Pro needed: Export to all platforms, including iOS & Android with the free(!) Unity license. > Pay once, use for 12 months: 100 concurrent user Photon Cloud...