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July, 2009

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Jul 09

Photon Server 1.4.0

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A new version of the Photon Server SDK is now available and welcomes Flash 9+ in the mix of supported platforms! It supports the AS3′s AMF3 encoding via TCP now and of course our internal binary protocol used so far.

Also included are updates in the core C/C++ engine which should get some additional performance on production machines.

This new release is also a milestone to the new Photon HTTP Server: applications built with the new APIs run on either server technology – depending on your needs. To allow this, the application-class was separated from the “rest” of the application. While working on it, we also opened up some more of the CLR code and included the code for the Room and Actor classes.

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Jul 09
Paradise Paintball

Paradise Paintball

In March we mentioned that we had developed an SDK for Unity3D, so that games using the new 3d engine could integrate our multiplayer technology seamlessly.

Shortly after that, when we released our streamlined product “Photon“, game developer  Cmune chose Photon (its Unity SDK) for their “Paradise Paintball” game. Reworking the multiplayer functionality from a prior multiplayer engine, Paradise Paintball is now ready and running on Photon. It’s available as facebook application, with some further informations and great ratings. You can also play it online directly in your brower for free on the Cmune website.

Check out Paradise Paintball on the Cmune website.

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Jul 09

Summer Brain Drain

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hot hot hot

It’s hot. Not something friendly like sunny or warm. It’s hot. Think of white hot charcoal, a furnace, think of burning air and lava streams. This is what it feels like. Good thing we have a new coffee machine. Not. We’d need a chest freezer with crushed ice now. So this is summer. We’re not used to these kind of temperatures in Hamburg. Usually good weather in Hamburg is when the rain falls vertically. Interesting trivia: Hamburg lies to the north of London (as far as latitude is concerned) and has more rainfall, too. But: the city is full of canals and has more bridges than Venice (although there aren’t any places  to sit in the shadow at the canals anywhere). It’s still the nicest city and Game Developer Capital of Germany. It’s just … hot!