What is Photon Engine?
Photon Engine is a proprietary multiplayer game development platform designed to power real-time, networked games. It provides the networking backend, infrastructure and services needed to build multi-user games and applications.
Some key features of Photon Engine include:
- Real-time global networking engine and multiplayer framework
- Auto-hosted Photon Cloud to run rooms/matches, or the ability to run your own Photon Servers
- Matchmaking and lobby system
- Authoritative server or fast paced peer-to-peer networking model
- Client and server side prediction for fast, fluid experiences
- Multiplatform SDKs for mobile, desktop, console and web
- Integrations with game engines like Unity, Unreal, Cocos2d
- In-depth statistics, analytics and monitoring with Photon Dashboard
- APIs for in-app purchases and monetization
- Options for self-hosting Photon Servers on premises
Photon Engine aims to handle all the networking and infrastructure aspects of building multiplayer games, allowing developers to focus on the gameplay and application logic. Some popular games powered by Photon include PUBG Mobile, Cuisine Royale, EVE: Online and more.