This time I prefer to let our customer Ticking Bomb Games speak for us: “We are 100% satisfied with Photon! It made our work not only much easier but also much faster. It simply offers the key features to build scalable MMOGs with Unity: reliable UDP and a socket-server that is extensible in C#. On top of that:...
Exit Games, the leading provider of network engines and Unity Studios, sister company of the leading 3D platform provider Unity, today announced a partnership to introduce the perfect product tandem for MMO game development with Unity: Legion and Photon. Legion provides a powerful MMOG development framework for Unity developers, which is perfectly complemented by Exit...
Ever wanted to know how to get started and what to consider when developing your own MMOG? 3D Buzz has started a class on exactly this subject. They chose Unity as underlying 3D engine, and – guess what – they chose Photon as their multiplayer backend technology. And this is what Jason Busby, founder of...
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....