Dev Story Total Mayhem Games – We Were Here Too
This guest post was written by Sam Meyer, lead developer at Total Mayhem Game for We Were Here Too, awarded as best Multiplayer Game at this year’s Indie Prize. We Were Here Too is an...
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A New FPS Benchmark for Mobiles: Shadowgun Legends
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...
Enabling Guns of Icarus Alliance Cross-platform with Photon Voice
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...
Runbow: Online Multiplayer for PC, Xbox, PS4, WiiU, Switch & 3DS
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...
Pantropy – Massive Performance Boost by Using NetworkArrays / Photon Bolt
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...
Streamlined Photon Product Portfolio: TRUESYNC fuses into QUANTUM, THUNDER Development Ceased
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...
Photon Quantum – Join the Multiplayer Revolution
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...
Buggy Blasters – Multiplayer HoloLens Considerations
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....
Tome of Heroes – Making a Game by Yourself
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...
Photon Bolt: Fair Pricing or “Shameless money-grab”?
“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...
