Photon collaboration / Developer tooling
Meta Avatars Multiplayer Template & Course
Making a difficult multiplayer integration accessible: a working Meta Avatars template and a course built around it.
- Contribution
- Template development and course creation
Developed in collaboration with Photon
Deprecated · no longer maintained / 2023
The challenge
In 2023, building multiplayer experiences with Meta Avatars and Photon Fusion was particularly difficult. The avatar API was challenging to work with, and connecting avatar poses and shared interactions across the network required substantial integration work.
The work
In collaboration with Photon, we tackled that integration and turned it into a reusable Unity template, making a difficult API accessible through working examples. The course grew out of that work, using the template to teach avatar setup, networked poses and shared interaction step by step. Photon Fusion has come a long way since then; the Meta Avatars generation used here has been deprecated, so this work documents the challenges and solutions of that earlier tooling.
- Fusion-based multiplayer template
- Networked avatar examples
- Developer demonstration
- A course based on the template, covering avatar setup and multiplayer integration
The result
Developers gained a working starting point and a guided path through an otherwise difficult integration. The template is no longer maintained, and the course preserves the approach used with the now-deprecated Meta Avatars generation.