“If you are making multiplayer games you should definitely look at this [Photon] stuff.” Mr. Helgason, CEO of Unity, himself said so during his keynote at this years Unite 2012. Go, watch and hear it here. (Photon praise starts at 0:14:28).
‘playMaker‘ by Hutong Games is one of the best selling tools in Unity’s Asset Store and that comes for a reason: by its super-intuitive visual state editor it empowers designer and artists to create their own games without even knowing how to program while it is also a great help for experienced developers to e.g. quickly...
I know it is a buzz word, yes, but I think it is really a Win-Win situation: The Photon Cloud makes it so easy to develop and run online games that anyone who wants to can now create successful multiplayer online games. That’s exactly what the folks at Xlabz Technologies have done with ‘Sketch W...
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...