Exit Games : Network Engines » Development http://blog.exitgames.com Exit Games Photon, Realtime, iPhone, Android, G1, Flash, multiplayer development weblog Thu, 12 Jan 2012 21:03:23 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Photon v3.0.0.9 Client SDKs for Unity, DotNet, WP7.1 and Silverlight http://blog.exitgames.com/2012/01/photon-v3-0-0-9-client-sdks-for-unity-dotnet-wp7-1-and-silverlight/ http://blog.exitgames.com/2012/01/photon-v3-0-0-9-client-sdks-for-unity-dotnet-wp7-1-and-silverlight/#comments Thu, 12 Jan 2012 15:39:38 +0000 Tobias http://blog.exitgames.com/?p=1771 This is a maintenance release, mainly for the Unity, Windows Phone and Silverlight libraries. Those three were affected by a bug in encryption, which could cause clients to crash and connections to fail.

Anyone who’s using Photon 3 or the cloud service should update to this version.

The next SDKs will most likely include the API to use our Loadbalancing solution and the Photon Cloud service.

Download here.

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We refactored the C++ and objC  demos to use the same code on every platform (except UI), so that we can keep the demos on many platforms up to date at a high quality level more easily. This triggers the following immediate changes:

iOS: 2 new C++ demos – the hello world one, known from the marmalade sdk, which is optimized to be an as easy as possible entry point into using Photon and a C++ version of the graphical realtime-demo, based on cocos2d-x (still also shipping the directly openGL ES based objc version in addition)
Marmalade: 1 new C++ demo – finally the Marmalade SDK also comes with a version of the graphical realtime demo
Win32: 1 new C++ demo: the hello-world one; and the C++ realtime demo now ships with a new graphics engine and a new look

 

Last but not least the most shining news of this release of course is, that finally we officially support OS X as client platform :)

Get the new native Photon 3 Client SDKs here.

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  • operation requests are now wrapped up into classes like operation responses and events
  • LitePeer’s opRaiseEvent() now supports event caching and receiver groups
  • as always there have been some minor bugfixes

However there are great news for the objC coders among you: the iOS version of the new SDK is the first client SDK to offer a high-level API for the Photon 3 LoadBalancing features! This new API layer simplifies usage of multiple game servers as used in our cloud service exitgamescloud.com.

Of course, it’s fully compatible with the “Loadbalancing” applications found in our server SDK, so you can host this yourself as well. This is implemented as objC library and the source is available in the SDK.

A C++ version of this LoadBalancing library is currently in development and will come soon  for all native client SDKs.

Get the new Photon 3 Client SDKs here.

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GEE Unity Contest

One of our favorite gaming magazines for iPad, GEE Display, asked us if we can help them with a nice prize as they were planning a Unity special in their latest (and first) international magazine edition featuring a Unity multiplayer game contest. A prize for a multiplayer contest? Sure we can!

While the folks from Unity give away a Unity Pro license, we’ll give you one free year in the Photon Cloud plus you can win an annual subscription to the GEE magazine.

Read about the contest and how you can enter here.

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Probably the most important change for iOS-developers: the Beta-SDK is compatible to Xcode 3 again (unlike the Alpha which required Xcode 4).

If you are using objC then there are more good news for you: customType support in objC has left the developer-preview state and is final like in other languages.

Last but not least, this update fixes all the memory leaks which have been introduced between 6.5.5 (the last Photon 2 client) and 3.0.0.0 Alpha/PublicAlpha.

Please refer to the release-history files for a detailed list of all changes.

Get the new Photon 3 Client SDKs here.

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