Today, Metaplay announced that developers can now launch their online Unity games using the same infrastructure trusted by top-tier studios. With its fully-customizable backend SDK and battle-tested game servers, Metaplay is lowering the barrier for studios to build scalable, server-authoritative games from day one without sacrifi cing long-term quality or fl exibility.
“Too many developers have either been priced out of using top-tier backend solutions or pushed into black-box platforms that can’t grow with them”, said Petri Kero, Co-Founder and CEO of Metaplay. “We believe great games deserve great tooling right from day one – tooling that won’t hold teams back as they scale.”
The news follows Metaplay’s recent launch of Metaplay Free, another new plan which gives developers unlimited local development at absolutely no cost. Now, Metaplay’s new Starter plan gives developers a natural path to quick, aff ordable online deployments on a trusted, industrial-grade backend.
Built in Finland, one of the world’s leading hubs for game innovation, Metaplay is trusted by studios in Helsinki, Berlin, London, Barcelona, and North America. Metaplay’s SDK includes a customizable C# game server, real-time LiveOps capabilities, and full source code access, giving developers control over how their game runs, scales, and evolves.
“We want to give far more studios a genuine shot at competing with the biggest studios who’ve spent years and millions building their own backends”, Petri Kero added. “Earlier this year we pledged to be part of a Renaissance in gaming powered by accessible technology, and our new plans are now putting tech used by the biggest and best within reach of many, many more companies.”
With the new Metaplay Starter plan, developers can start building with Metaplay’s server-authoritative programming model, and deploy their game to the Metaplay Cloud for small-scale testing. They also gain access to Metaplay’s pre-built LiveOps Dashboard – a powerful control center for running a live game at scale which can be extended and fully customized to suit
the needs of any kind of game. When ready to progress further into production, developers can upgrade to a Pre-launch or Production Metaplay Pro plan to leverage fully-scalable managed services.
To begin shipping their own game on the very same tech used by some of the world’s best teams, developers c]an take advantage of a special 50% discount for their fi rst three months of Metaplay Starter by entering the promo code STARTER at checkout on portal.metaplay.dev.
