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 us in Amsterdam, Netherlands, on May 7th and 8th, 2025, for the first European Online Services Summit hosted by Pragma and i3D.net. This exclusive gathering brings together engineering leaders in the games industry to discuss challenges, trends, and innovations in online services. The Summit provides a casual environment with panels, roundtables, and networking opportunities. Join us for insightful conversations and shared learnings, and help shape the future of online games.
CTO of ESL FACEIT Group
Vice President of Engineering and Platform at Ubisoft
Former CTO of Mediatonic
Head of Game Services at Saber Interactive
Last year, Luis Villegas — PlayStation Studios, Eric Danker — Riot Games, Jon "Slothy" Shiring — Gravity Well and Chris Cobb — Pragma shared war stories from Halo, Destiny, League of Legends, Call of Duty, Titanfall 2, Apex Legends, as well as best practices and considerations for product development, leadership and team building in the online services industry.
AI
Cross Play
Player Behavior
Meta Game Systems
Monetization
Matchmaking
Engineering Leadership
High Performing Teams
Infrastructure
UGC
We're continuing the conversation after the summit at a local bar. Enjoy complimentary beverages and appetizers while networking with fellow engineering leaders in a relaxed setting, dive deeper into the day's discussions, and forge new relationships in the games industry.
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.
i3D.net simplifies scaling, empowering companies to grow confidently. With experience scaling leaders like Discord and Psyonix, we provide a robust interconnected infrastructure platform empowered by hands-on expertise. Our self-service solutions and 24/7 LiveOps ensure infrastructure evolves with ambitions. More than a mere infrastructure provider, we're the partner for the fastest-growing companies.
Hathora is a server orchestration and hybrid cloud provider for AA and AAA studios running the most ambitious multiplayer games, from dev to launch or migrations when cloud is no longer meeting your needs. They already power games like Frost Giant’s Stormgate, Omeda Studios’ Predecessor, and 1047 Games’ forthcoming Splitgate 2. Their self-service platform gets you going in minutes with deployments in 14+ regions.
At the Multiplayer Group (MPG), we specialise in creating the highest standard of mind-blowing multiplayer experiences for our partners, through Co-Dev and Full-Dev projects. With our HQ in Nottingham, UK, MPG is a 300 strong team spread across 30 countries, helping our partners to build 20+ AAA projects at any one time. Our aims are to be instrumental in the best multiplayer developments around the globe, to help our partners succeed and to add value to these projects that only experience like ours can.