written like an advertisement . please help improve it by removing promotional content and inappropriate external links and by adding encyclopedic content written from a neutral point of view . march 2016 learn how and when to remove this template message exit games inc. type private industry online games founded february 2003 headquarters hamburg germany key people chris wegmann co founder ceo and cto website www.exitgames.com exit games is a german venture capital financed company founded in 2003 with offices in hamburg and portland offering photon a multiplayer engine for cross platform realtime multiplayer games massively multiplayer online games mmogs chat and voice chat on various technological platforms including mobile pc and consoles . contents 1 technology 2 business model & pricing 3 games powered by photon 4 references 5 external links technology edit exit games provides the multiplayer middleware and service photon server and photon cloud that allow the development of scalable cross platform realtime multiplayer games . photon offers sdks which include libraries for various platforms such as unity ios android windows windows phone corona marmelade cocos2d x and more code samples and documentation . since all libraries connect to the same backend using the same commands and logics cross platform interactivity is possible i.e. communication between different variants of an application running on various platforms e.g. ios vs. browser vs. android . it is recommended to start with the photon cloud . in case custom server code is really needed it is easy to switch to photon server later as the client sdk of both product share the same api . main benefits photon cloud cross platform capabilities client sdks for all major gaming platform global low latency photon cloud is deployed in hosting centers across the u.s. europe and asia singapore japan and soon in south korea . based on this footprint photon cloud s infrastructure allows developers to launch real time games on a global scale without any server hassle real time photon cloud s communication protocols are streamlined and the service s core is based on c c to allow the fastest round trip times for your multiplayer apps in conjunction with the global hosting centers automatic scalability photon cloud scales automatically with the actual game s load supporting tens of thousands of users.matchmaking api match players randomly or by specific filters or create a list of open rooms and let players pick one . it works simply and quickly free plan photon cloud is completely free for up to 20 concurrent users ccu per app and you can have as many apps as you like . if you need to support more players you can upgrade to a paid plan or downgrade to a free plan at any time . paid plans with ccu burst allow to exceed your ccu limit and optionally upgrade later without losing any users business model & pricing edit photon server is offered as a software license model while photon cloud is offered as a software as a service . the available options are differentiated by the amount of concurrent users that can connect with photon at the same time means users playing a photon powered game at the same time . photon cloud & server are both offered on a monthly subscription basis plus photon server is available for a one off fee as well . free plans are available for all photon products . a detailed pricing for each photon product can be found online pricing photon realtime pricing photon turnbased pricing photon unity networking pricing photon chat pricing photon server furthermore exit games offers enterprise licenses which have neither a server nor a concurrent user limit . games powered by photon edit an overview of selected references can be found at photon s showcase site . world golf tour king s bounty legions uberstrike by cmune guns of icarus online references edit gmo cloud and exit games partner to release popular saas network engine photon cloud in japanese http www.develop online.net news 31476 exit games launches new multiplayer engine photon cloud & corona sdk a dream team for cross platform multiplayer games external links edit photon server photon cloud photon blog photon twitter retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title exit games & oldid 711764126 categories cross platform softwaremobile softwaremultiplayer online gamesmassively multiplayer online gameshidden categories articles with a promotional tone from march 2016all articles with a promotional tone navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a 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