One of our most requested features is finally coming: Photon Chat. It will be ready-to-use and simple so you can add a scalable chat within a breeze. Nice. Users can subscribe to multiple channels at once and can be updated independently from Photon rooms. Not enough: the chat will not only allow to send plain...
Wow! Unity 2D, Unity Games and Unity Cloud, to mention just a few of the 2013 keynote highlights. These guys are really doing it right. While Unity has paved the way for a new era of games development it seems they are about revolutionizing it. I think they have all pieces in place to take...
We’re happy to announce our new partnership with Corona Labs! Using the Photon Cloud plugin, Corona developers will be able to build and launch cross-platform real-time multiplayer games and join the ranks of hits like Uberstrike, World Golf Tour, Offensive Combat, Kartuga, and King’s Bounty: Legions. Read the full article at Corona Labs.
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...