This guest post was written by Howard Tsao, Team Lead at New York City based indie studio Muse Games. Their hit-game ‘Guns of Icarus’ raised the stakes on team-based PvP combat with an emphasis on strategic competition and truly cooperative play. It is a fantastic airship-to-airship combat game that’s all about teamwork, tactics, and fast-paced...
Runbow by 13AM Games is a colourful party-platformer-action game for up to 9 local or online players. It is currently out on Nintendo Wii U, New Nintendo 3DS, on Steam for PC, on XBox One, and coming soon to PS4 and Nintendo Switch. This is the story of how 13AM implemented online multiplayer for its...
This guest post was written by Julian Kaulitzki, lead developer for Pantropy at indie game studio Brain Stone. Pantropy is a faction-based, SciFi-themed mech-game for PC and is, at the time of writing, in closed-alpha. Pantropy will eventually allow up to 128 players in one joint session. Conquer an alien world, farm ores, build bases and...
In the last two years we introduced new products to our portfolio to better tackle the different challenges in multiplayer development. But with the growing portfolio it became more difficult for our customers to understand the differences between them. We decided to streamline our portfolio and focus on less products: This mainly affects two Photon...
Introducing Photon Quantum Quantum revolutionizes the way fast-paced multiplayer games are build. A revolution is always started by a few leaders and we spent over 2.5 years to develop Quantum before we gave it into their hands: SYBO Games Future Games of London – a Ubisoft Studio Mediatonic and the freshly founded studio Like a Boss....
This guest post was written by Bernard Francois, Kasper Geeroms, Matthew Cormack, and Jannes Plyson, respectively founder, project manager, and programmers of PreviewLabs, a company specialized in rapid prototyping with game technology. PreviewLabs was founded in 2010 and has been using Photon since 2013. Buggy Blasters is the first multiplayer HoloLens game concept...
This guest post was written by Stefan Pulciu, founder, developer and designer of Tome of Heroes. Tome of Heroes is a real time player versus player game designed for mobile devices. It’s set in a fantasy world in which you build a team of heroes around your strategy and fight in the arena versus other...
“On coming out of Beta, Photon have now decided that not only relayed clients but also fully peer-peer connected players will use up CCU allowances, which the developer has to pay for. So one of the main benefits that Bolt used to have, i.e. no server costs, has been snatched away.” The above quote is...
This guest post was written by Christoffer Andersson, co-founder and software architect at Pathos Interactive. Pathos Interactive is a game studio headquartered in Mölndal, Sweden. The studio was founded in 2015 and are currently developing Bannermen. About the Game Bannermen is an RTS game with the goal to refresh the classic RTS genre. Bannermen...
This guest post was written by Frederik Reher, developer at Looterkings. Looterkings is an indie studio founded by the Youtubers Manuel Schmitt (aka SgtRumpel), Erik Range (aka Gronkh) and Valentin Rahmel (aka Sarazar) in 2015. Their first game, the roguelike dungeon-crawler Looterkings, has been released as Early Access on Steam in August 2016 and is...