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...
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.
… 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...
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...
‘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...
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...
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...