• Photon PUN Choose the #1 Platform for Unity Multiplayer.

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    • “My hero!”
    • “Deserves five stars”
    • “Works flawlessly”
    • “A life saver!”
    • “10/10 - Doesn't get easier”

  • Photon is going great for us! We've released an Armello multiplayer alpha to Kickstarter backers this week, and Photon has been a great backbone ... it's been easy to get set up.

    Jason Bakker, League of Geeks

  • Photon PUN Choose the #1 Platform for Unity Multiplayer.

    Photon PUN Packing
    • No servers needed. Runs in the Photon Cloud (EU, US & Asia).
    • Fully integrated with Unity
    • Works with all Unity exports: Browser, PC, Mobile and Console.
    • 5 Star Rating in the Unity Asset Store
    • All features of Photon Realtime

Photon Realtime Features

Develop and launch realtime multiplayer games globally whether you are an indie developer or a AAA studio.

Realtime

Photon Cloud is available globally to guarantee low latency and shortest round-trip times for your multiplayer games worldwide.

Multiplayer

We offer you the required messaging rates reliably. Our realtime SaaS is the right choice for you whether with TCP, HTTP, Websockets or RUDP.

Cross-Platform

You won't find a backend supporting more platforms.
Find the supported SDKs down here .
Q.E.D.

Highly Scalable

Distributed worldwide Photon Cloud scales seamless and automatically even for tens of thousands of concurrent users.
Proven. Successfully. .

Matchmaking API

Match players randomly or by specific filters into games. Or create a list of open rooms and let players pick one.
It works. Simply and fast.

Customizable

With their turnkey API our client SDKs to guarantee low latency and shortest round-trip times for your multiplayer games worldwide.

You are in Good Company.

Join 86k+ Top Developers and Studios

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  • Infected developed by Rocket Games
    totally works on mobile devices Richard Sun, Rocket Games
    Road Warrior by Mobjoygames
    using it on our next game as well :) Lucas Machada, Mobjoygames
  • Master of Maya by Kaasa solution
    awesome support team Nico Kaartinen, Kaasa Solution
    Indestructible by Glu Mobile
    online multiplayer action! Jesse Taylor, Glu Mobile
  • Eternity Warriors 2 by Glu Mobile
    compete in real-time! Jesse Taylor, Glu Mobile
    Sketch with Friends by xLabz
    people flooding into the game Krishna Prathab, xLabz

Code Examples

Photon Unity Networking (PUN) re-implements and enhances the features of Unity’s built-in networking. Under the hood, it uses Photon’s features to communicate and match players. The API is very similar to Unity’s. Developers with prior networking experience in Unity will feel at home immediately. An automatic converter assists you porting existing multiplayer projects.

See PUN and Unity Networking compared in detail in the docs.

Connect 


PhotonNetwork.ConnectUsingSettings("1.0");

Connecting our loadbalanced servers is as easy. You can use the passed in string to distinguish between versions or use it to group clients.

Join a Game 


PhotonNetwork.JoinRandomRoom();

To join any existing game (often referred to as room as well) that is all it takes. Filters for max amount of players and game specific criteria are optionally passed in.

Create a Game 


public void OnConnectedToMaster()
{
    PhotonNetwork.CreateRoom("Room42", true, true, 4);
}

Set up a new room using CreateRoom. Hand it over the room's name, the room's ability to be found by others, the option for others to join in and the max player count.

Start Multiplayer 



PhotonNetwork
    .networkingPeer
    .OpRaiseEvent((byte)eventCode, (byte)interestGroup, (Hashtable)customEventContent, (bool)sendReliable)

Exchange in-game-data, set remote object properties e.a. sending them by RPC.

For further samples, a complete quickstart tutorial, demos and references see the online documentation for Photon PUN.