MMA Manager

Overview: MMA Manager is a gym management game with city building, fighter progression, and asynchronous PvP mechanics.

Client: Goober Games

Client goals: The team received this project request while it was in the early stages with the backend in Cake PHP, without scaling support, and client-side in Unity. The project structure did not support the client’s long-term goals of scaling to a large audience and complex, interactive PvP.

Tech stack: Amazon AWS, IIS, ASP.net, C#, Photon, PUN, Unity, NGUI

Stepico Solutions: We used Photon and PUN within-house serialization solutions to improve the connection speed and reliability and added the ability for event pushing/broadcasting from the server within the same protocol. Rewritten server in C# (using IIS and ASP.net) to allow code reusability between client and server. The team updated Unity to a more modern version (unity 4.5 to 5.4 migration) and improved NGUI usage by appropriately using atlases and shaders (materials).