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Exceptional Support & Resources to Boost Your Development

Get premium development support from our engineers, access exclusive samples and features equipping you with essential resources for the successful development and successful release of your multiplayer games.

CIRCLE MEMBERSHIP HIGHLIGHTS

Save Time, Avoid Risks and Reduce Costs

Premium Support

Premium Development Support

Get priority email support or choose a Circle Starter or Pro plan to chat directly with our engineers. Let our experts help you accelerating your progress by quickly resolving technical challenges during your development.

Premium Support

Exclusive Resources & Samples

Implement your game faster with 40+ exclusive samples and early access to alphas, betas and exclusive features. You’ll save time and resources while ensuring the highest quality for your project.

Private Chat Support

Discuss sensitive topics directly with our team in one exclusive channel.

Circle Community

Ask questions, get answers and feedback in the Circle community.

Stack
Overflow

Browse our knowledge base and receive timely response from our experts.

Tournament Systems

Integrate our Tournament SDK which powers Stumble Guys and others.

We asked a lot of questions on Discord - and we are SUPER appreciative about your support.
Michael Balm
Co-Founder & Creative Director
I'm so glad we are in the Circle. The Photon team is an insanely talented engineering group that are truly a joy to collaborate with.
Paul Bettner
CEO
CIRCLE EXCLUSIVE

Samples for Key Game Genres

Kickstart your project with a robust foundation, enabling limitless creativity with 40+ exclusive game and technical samples. We have spent countless man years to create samples for many game genres that help you to learn best practices and common patterns how to build successful multiplayer games with our products.

As a Circle member you can not only use our samples, but also ask questions about them. Tell us what you build and we’ll tell you what Photon products and samples you should use.

Samples

Exclusive Features and Resources

As a Circle member you are granted several exclusive benefits. This includes early access to new features, access to distinctive AddOns and to our Plugin technology, to create and implement custom server logic within Photon Cloud. With these exceptional tools at your disposal and a close relationship to our team, you can confidently unlock the true potential of your gaming experience.

Plugin

Plugins

Use Plugins to extend your server core flow closely, providing flexibility to hook before and after processing. The plugins support lock-free code execution, ensuring single calls per instance, and utilize an integrated HTTP client and timers. Simplify your usage, reduce complexity, and increase your security by using Plugins.

Plugin

Early Access

Early Access to Photon Engine products provides developers with a competitive edge, a voice in product development, and the ability to plan and execute projects more efficiently. Start planning and developing features based on the upcoming capabilities of the Photon products.

Bots
SDK

Access Utility Theory AI and Goal-oriented action planning (GOAP) decision-making approaches that involve mathematical modeling and goal-driven actions for Bots.
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Dynamic Asset Injection

Add assets deterministically in a Quantum simulation. From an addressable or in-frame asset, manage your assets dynamically.
Learn more

Flow
Fields

Flow Fields technique suitable for large amounts of units with a shared destination on grid based games.
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Custom Animator

Control animation to be 100% in sync across all the players for very accurate tick based animations and snap to the correct rollback state.
Learn more

PREMIUM DEVELOPMENT SUPPORT

Get Direct Help From Photon Core Engineers

With premium support, you can send emails and chat directly with our engineers to quickly resolve technical challenges you encounter during your development. Don’t waste precious time trying to figure out solutions on your own. Let our experts help you get back on track and accelerate your progress.

Photon Core Engineers

Development Support Services

Let us help you achieve your goal faster by choosing the right level of support your team needs. Use emails, chats or posts and we will answer you back.

SDK technical email support

Priority queue for emails

Chat with our Engineers

Circle exclusive Stack Overflow

eSports

Ready to Use Tournament Service

Give players an authentic e-sports experience as part of the game they already love.

Flexible

Use the extensive features set to create all kinds of tournaments of competitive games of any genre.

  • Solo or Teams
  • Multi-Stage Formats
  • Seasonal Leagues
  • Customisable UX/UI
  • Seamless Scalability

Automated

Using web based dashboard run fully autonomous tournaments without a need of admins

  • Scheduling & Recurrency
  • Tournament Execution
  • Prize Delivery
  • Discord Integration
  • Webhook Calls
Tournament

Organic
Content

Generate new content opportunities for Youtube, Twitch and other streaming platforms with top plays or influencer tournaments.

Tournament

Economy Integration

Boost your monetization and revenue with tournament entry fees and rewards.

Tournament

Building Your Community

Funnel your competitive players into Discord to find teammates and set up auto-reminders for upcoming events.

Tournament

Player Engagement

Enhance player engagement and prolong gaming sessions by introducing fresh tournament incentives.

Looking for Operations Support?

Gaming Circle is all about development support, but once your game is live operations topics become important.

Our Operations Support plans offer everything around live operations of your apps such as guaranteed service levels and 24/7 support by our devOps team. Plugins for server authoritative logic make Enterprise Cloud the trusted choice for the world´s top companies.

Contact us for more options and details on our Operations and Enterprise plans.

PUBLIC CLOUD PREMIUM CLOUD ENTERPRISE CLOUD
CCU Up to 2,000 Up to 50,000 Unlimited
Premium Dashboard / Counter API
24/7 NOC / Escalation support Optional
SLA Optional
Advisory Support Optional
Priority Emails

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Worldmap

Not Building a
Game?

Fortune 500 companies use Photon to power real-time applications for experiences, education, critical operations, and more.

With decades of success running the best games in the world, Photon reliability and accuracy is ideal for real-world applications.

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