Photon cloud for turn based games coming soon

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Xaron(Posted 2014) [#1]
Now this looks pretty handy: https://www.exitgames.com/en/Turnbased

No server needed but asynchronous gameplay possible with cloud storage! That's what I've waited for a long time. Should be worth a module. ;)


Nobuyuki(Posted 2014) [#2]
So many questions for me, not enough answers.

I don't see why you couldn't run similar stuff like this yourself on an instance in a more popular cloud service like AWS, although I don't know what the price of that sorta thing would be. SO, what's it bring to the table? A cloud "made for" this sorta thing combined with their own matchmaking API? Code examples on the site are pretty sparse and the service itself reminds me of other multiplayer gaming services of the past -- adding the words "cloud" to the whole schtick to add a sense it'll work/be priced like other cloud services. How much is it gonna cost? Do you have to sign up for early access to find out? It seems so closely-tied to unity, too. Are we really gonna have to buy this through the asset store? How does that jive with a cloud-based pricing model?

I guess the fact it's multiplatform is part of its shtick, but really, even though the API will be written for you, it'll be for Unity only most likely (requiring a port to Monkey, which depending on their licensing scheme may require reverse-engineering), and you'll almost certainly be locked into their cloud services, too.

I remember a while back talk of someone writing an API for a different turn-based service around the time mark was working on the sockets part of BRL, but the name escapes me. So, I did a search for it. Didn't find it (yet), but I did find some other cross-platform turn-based services, including some who are partners with some of the very big cloud services:

Amazon: http://aws.amazon.com/game-hosting/
Google: https://developers.google.com/games/services/ (Android: Play services SDK, Other implementations: REST API)
Qburst: http://www.qburst.com/products/Galapagos
Scoreoid: http://scoreoid.net/scoreoid-backend/


Why0Why(Posted 2014) [#3]
I think the other one was pubnub.

http://www.pubnub.com/