- With millions spent and time wasted, how much is your backend really costing you?
- We catch up with Metaplay to find out how it scales smaller studios and saves them $1 million per year
It used to be that big wins demanded deep pockets. Now, achieving success on a shoestring budget isn’t the exception but the rule. It all comes down to one question: how much are you spending on your backend?
This week’s guest estimates that studios spend an average of $21 million and three years developing their own backend. With Metaplay, you can do the same job in two weeks.
This week Peggy Anne Salz and Brian Baglow sit down with Teemu Haila, co-founder and CPO of Metaplay, who shares how the brand scales smaller studios and saves them $1 million per year with one SDK.
Teemu dives into the tech, explaining how Metaplay’s solution offers the infrastructure to successfully scale live service Unity C# games, how it facilitates smooth real-time interactions, and ensures a safe and fair player experience by making your game 100% secure from cheaters and bots.
Listen. Learn. Enjoy.
What’s inside:
00:00 – Intro
01:20 – Teemu’s journey into games
05:46 – Scales as a service
08:30 – 4 pillars of scaling
11:57 – Strategies for a larger player base
15:20 – How studios succeed during layoffs
19:46 – Building around live-ops
28:40 – A flexible studio culture
31:20 – A live-or-die market
33:18 – Metaplay’s growth blueprint
36:29 – Making cheating impossible
39:32 – Working with Metaplay
43:15 – Favourite games Q&A
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