UPDATE #2: Some information on v5 delay: right now, multiple regions of our public Photon Cloud are running on Photon Server v5 and everything runs stable and fine, closely monitored by our 24/7 operations team. There are some smaller issues we are working on before rolling v5 out to all our Photon Cloud regions. Once...
Photon Quantum is a new, disrupting multiplayer game engine and since its launch about 1.5 years ago many great teams joined to develop outstanding multiplayer games that provide a 100% fair, lag-free player experience. Selected references built with Photon Quantum: Battlelands Royale by Futureplay Lego Brawls by Red Games Bullet League by Funday Factory HeroVS...
Bots can be tremendously important for the success of multiplayer games. Todays player are extremely impatient and hardly willing to invest time into trying out a new game, especially on mobile platforms. No other player there to play against? Game abandoned, end of story. Although the value of bots is quite obvious on all platforms,...
Multiplayer games are super social no matter if you are playing with someone or against someone. This social factor includes competition which is a huge motivational factor in multiplayer game design. Players love competition: it is much more rewarding to win against another real player than to beat the AI in a singleplayer game. This...
This guest post was written by Jikhan Jung, founder and CEO at Subdream Studios, a social VR game studio founded in January 2017 by gaming industry veterans with experience in PC, mobile and VR. Ever since, Subdream have been making multiplayer VR games such as Mega Overload, Hell Dimensions etc. Galaga is the unforgettable game...
You have a uNet game and wonder how to port it over to PUN? We have a dedicated site in our online docs where we describe the porting process on the basis of Unity’s Network Meteoroid demo. Learn what aspects are very simple and where you need to pay special attention to get a satisfying...
At the annual Game Developer Conference, VIVE hosted a Developer Day where company executives and engineers spent the day sharing information on their newest developer tools, their platform strategy and their new partnership with Photon to make development of connected VR experiences simple. Enhancing VR experiences with multiplayer or multi-user features significantly helps to build...
Yesterday Improbable published a blog post stating that Unity’s updated terms of services (ToS) result in blocking their SpatialOS technology. This led to a lot of turbulence amongst our community and partners who were concerned if Unity’s ToS changes are affecting Photon as well. As Photon is not including the Unity engine/runtime on the server or...
PUN – A Huge Success Story Photon Unity Networking has been – and still is – our most successful product powering several top-grossing mobile hits such as Golf Clash, War Robots or Pixel Gun 3D. But it is not only the leading networking engine on mobile: the world’s top studios and publishers such as Disney,...
Finally: Photon Bolt is available as a free version including 20 concurrent user (CCU )in Unity’s Asset Store since a couple of weeks. The emergence of battle royale games like PUBG or Fortnite brought a new wave of attention and some positive pressure on our Photon Bolt roadmap. We are happy to finally provide not...