Madfinger Games are pushing what’s possible on mobile since ever and this attitude defined their plans for the multiplayer features in ‘Shadowgun Legends’. We evaluated a lot of multiplayer engines and only Photon nailed our networking ambitions: AAA grade experience, unbeatable price and awesome support.” Marek Rabas, CEO Madfinger Games We are honored and super...
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...
Great demos to showcase a product’s capabilities are always pretty important when releasing a new product. Therefore we launched Quantum including a great action RPG framework and developed some more together with some very talented teams: Action RPG Shooter Fighting Game These teams were paid for their work, of course, but they were...
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...
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 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...
This guest post was written by Florian Bukmaier, co-founder and developer at Rebound Games. Rebound Games is an indie studio founded by two brothers in 2013. They are frequently releasing new Unity assets on the Unity Asset Store, ranging from editor extensions and scripting tools to complete projects. The Asset Store is just their financial...