Revealed: The true cost of building your own game backend tech & tools

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The true cost of building a mobile game backend

Together with a leading market research agency, we surveyed 125 executives and tech leads at US mobile game development companies with a minimum staff of 50 on the cost of building their in-house tech.

The full report was released on May 22nd. Complete the form to read it.

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What is Metaplay?

More than just a fully-customizable and extensible C# backend, Metaplay is a complete game-making toolkit that comprises of:

Unity SDK

Unity Client Library
Advanced game development workflows
Offline development
Model inspector
Remote debugger
Client prediction
Connection manager
Highly-performant

Game Server

Fully programmable C# server
Extensible by design
Server-authoritative
Cheat-proof by default
Shared client-server logic
Low latency
Game config pipelines
Ready-made features included

LiveOps Dashboard

Complete game control centre
Advanced A/B testing tools
In-game events management
Player segmentation
Tailored offers and bundles
Player support tooling
Fully extensible and customizable

Metaplay Cloud

Metaplay-managed service
Optimized for scalability
Monitoring, logging and backups included
Built on Terraform and Kubernetes
Low-latency architecture
Battle-tested to millions of DAU
Path to self-hosting

The true cost of building a mobile game backend

What is Metaplay?

Unity SDK

Game Server

LiveOps Dashboard

Metaplay Cloud

Metaplay is trusted by hundreds of leading developers