Cross-platform accounts to connect players everywhere.
Play with friends, participate in events, join guilds, and build communities.
Parties, matchmaking, game server allocation, and end-of-match processing.
Ship inventory, progression, battlepasses, loadouts, and all other player data systems with rich support.
Support game-level data for configuring content, stores, events, and meta-game systems.
Everything needed to launch new features at scale.
Support cross-platform purchasing to power your in-game economy.
Leverage our data pipeline to support data-informed decisions.
Extend Pragma Engine with flexible customization.
A Unified Web Experience.
A big thanks to the backend engineering community for trusting us with your time to attend the inaugural Backend Services Summit!
The Online Services Guild is a community for game studio backend engineers to meet, learn from each other, and have fun!
Join the #1 community of online service professionals at the game tech gathering of GDC 2025, the Online Services House. We'll be steps from Moscone’s front door at SPIN with food, drinks, ping pong and an incredible network of industry members. We look forward to kicking-off the first night of GDC – come reconnect with old friends and meet new great people.
Our event has limited capacity so please register early. We will be prioritizing admission for guests from game studios.
Also, please take a minute to learn about the Online Services Guild community on Discord where you can connect with other online service engineers throughout the year.
Special Thanks to our 2025 GDC Online Service House Partners
We’re a bunch of backend engineers that helped scale massive games like League of Legends, Destiny 2, and Plants vs Zombies 2. We’ve built the Backend Game Engine that powers features like cross-platform accounts, matchmaking, and player data (achievements, quests, battle passes, monetization, etc.). The Pragma Backend Game Engine is the only truly extensible backend solution.
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