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Photon Engine vs Visual Studio Live Share

A side-by-side look at Photon Engine and Visual Studio Live Share. For an in-depth review of either product, follow the links below.

Photon Engine

Photon Engine

Gaming Software

Photon Engine is a proprietary multiplayer game development platform that provides a real-time multiplayer game backend and networking engine. It handles hosting, networking, matchmaking, lag compensation and has out-of-the-box support for different platforms.

multiplayernetworkingrealtimegame-backendmatchmakinglag-compensationcrossplatform
Visual Studio Live Share

Visual Studio Live Share

Development

Visual Studio Live Share is a Visual Studio extension that allows developers to collaborate on code in real time. It supports sharing a codebase, debugging together, sharing terminals, discussing via audio call, and viewing edits as they are typed.

realtime-collaborationcode-sharingdebuggingaudio-calls