Photon Game Manager

Photon Game Manager: Cloud-Based Multiplayer Platform

Photon Game Manager is a cloud-based multiplayer game development platform. It provides networking, matchmaking, lobbies, statistics, and other services to help developers build real-time multiplayer games without running their own servers.

What is Photon Game Manager?

Photon Game Manager is a complete backend solution for building and running real-time multiplayer games. It is offered as a cloud service by Exit Games and handles most of the complex tasks associated with multiplayer game development.

Some key features of Photon Game Manager include:

• Networking API for sending messages between players
• Matchmaking to connect players together
• Lobbies and rooms to manage game sessions
• Player statistics and leaderboards
• Push notifications to inform players of events
• Virtual currency and item management
• Cross-platform support for Unity, Unreal, C++ and more

By providing all this backend functionality, Photon Game Manager allows developers to focus on building the game logic and presentation. They don't need to build their own servers or write complex networking code.

The service is offered on a usage-based pricing model, only paying for what features and traffic you utilize. It can scale to support anything from simple mobile games up to AAA multiplayer titles.

Overall, Photon Game Manager is designed to fast track multiplayer development for teams that don't want to invest in operating their own game infrastructure.

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