Backend Engineering and Online Player Services for Games: Code Wizards
Code Wizards brings 24 years of senior games engineering expertise to the difficult technical work behind the world’s biggest and most complex games.
From bespoke backends and online player services to cloud architecture, game server orchestration, data pipelines, integrations and migrations, we design, build, and improve the systems your game depends on.
Along with tackling the challenging backend work your game development requires, we help your team integrate into the game client, making it easy to build out the specific game features you need.
The Natural Extension to Your Internal Development Team
We know making games is hard and that budgets are tight. Our team is flexible enough to dive in when you need us and handover to you quickly and efficiently when you don’t, letting you concentrate on simply making a great game.
And there’s more; we know that cost efficiency is more important than ever, which is why we help your studio decide if a migration to AWS and/or Azure are a good fit for you and we can even help you make the move. We minimise the risk and maximise the returns (and we’ve done so for some of the biggest and most complex migrations for very popular console, PC, and mobile games!).
And more! Scaling and orchestration for game servers. Whether it’s cloud solutions like AWS GameLift Servers, AWS GameLift Streams, PlayFab Multiplayer Services, or custom solutions focused around bare metal, we’re here to help.
When you’re deep in game development, the last thing you need is anything that slows you down or breaks your concentration on your game. That’s where the Code Wizards come in. We’re backend game development veterans who know how to design, develop, and manage the online services that keep your game running smoothly.
From LiveOps platforms to backend integrations and through data analytics, our game engineering experts help you make the right choices – cutting through complexity, avoiding common pitfalls, and keeping your project on track.
Worried about picking the wrong platform? Struggling to find backend specialist engineers and/or manage them? Blowing budgets? Spending weeks debugging instead of building? Making your game super robust and reliable? Ensuring security? Wondering how to ensure you can scale to your player DAU and CCU?
We’ve got you covered. Our game development consultants work closely with your team to streamline processes, optimise costs, and get your game to market faster.
Here’s how the Wizards can help:
Games depend on complex technology working smartly behind the scenes. We design, build, and improve the backend systems, cloud infrastructure and online services that keep those experiences working, from first implementation through to production scale.
Whether you need a bespoke solution, help getting more from your existing platform, or senior engineering expertise to solve a particularly difficult technical issue, our team builds around the needs of your game rather than forcing your game to bend to a particular technology.
Backend & Online Services: Bespoke backend delivery or proven platforms including Nakama, PlayFab and Epic Online Services. We design and develop the systems your connected player experiences depend on, built around the features, performance and scale your game actually needs.
Cloud & Infrastructure Architecture: Design and optimisation across AWS, Azure, and other infrastructure environments. We help you make the right architectural decisions for performance, resilience, scalability and cost – without locking you into a one-size-fits-all approach.
Game Server Orchestration & Scaling: Architecture and engineering for systems including AWS GameLift Servers, PlayFab Multiplayer Servers, and custom solutions. Scale capacity with player demand while keeping infrastructure efficient and giving your game room to grow.
LiveOps Platforms & Online Player Services: Build, integrate, improve or migrate the services that support an evolving connected game, from LiveOps platforms and matchmakers to the backend functionality your players and development teams rely on.
SDKs, Tooling & Technical Delivery: Give your developers the tools they need to work quickly and reliably. We build SDKs, documentation, CI/CD workflows and supporting tooling that make complex backend functionality easier to integrate, test, deploy, and maintain.
Data, Analytics & AI Pipelines: Design and implement scalable data pipelines and analytics environments, including Databricks, so game and player data becomes useful, actionable and ready to support advanced analytics and AI.
The technology that got your game to where it is now isn’t necessarily the technology that will take it where you want to go next.
Whether you’re replacing a legacy backend, moving online services, changing cloud infrastructure or rethinking how your game scales, Code Wizards helps you plan and deliver the move without introducing unnecessary risk to your game or your players.
We don’t just lift and shift. We assess what you have, what you actually need and what should change along the way, then engineer a migration built around continuity, performance, scalability, and cost.
Migration Assessment & Architecture: Understand the dependencies, risks and opportunities before anything moves. We assess your existing architecture and requirements, define the target environment and build a practical migration path around your game.
Backend & Online Services Migrations: Move bespoke backends and online player services to technology better suited to where your game is heading. We handle the engineering, data and integrations needed to transition without unnecessarily rebuilding everything around them, regardless of whether you’re moving from bare metal to cloud, vice versa, or something else entirely.
Data & Service Continuity: Protect the systems and player data your game depends on throughout the transition. We plan dependencies, migration sequencing, validation, rollback and cutover to minimise disruption and keep risk under control.
Post-Migration Optimisation: A migration shouldn’t leave you with the same problems in a different place. We review performance, resource utilisation, scalability and cost after the move and optimise the new environment for the way your game actually operates.
Modern games depend on a growing ecosystem of backend services, platforms, engines, APIs, and third-party technology. The difficult part is making it all work together seamlessly without creating more complexity for your internal teams.
Code Wizards designs and delivers the integrations that connect your game to the technology around it. From online services and first-party platforms to payments, anti-cheat, analytics, and server orchestration, we help you build a connected technology stack that’s easier to develop against, maintain, and evolve.
Backend & Online Services Integration: Connect backend systems and online services including Nakama, PlayFab and Epic Online Services with the rest of your game. We handle the engineering between systems so data, functionality and player-facing features work together without issues.
Game Engine & Client Integration: Bring backend functionality into Unity, Unreal or your own custom engine without leaving your game team to wrestle with the underlying complexity. We build integrations around the way your client and development workflows actually work.
Platform & Third-Party Integrations: Integrate first-party services, payment platforms like Xsolla, anti-cheat platfomrs like Epic Anti-Cheat (EAC), analytics and other specialist technology into your existing ecosystem. We take care of the technical dependencies and implementation so new capabilities fit cleanly alongside what you already have.
CI/CD & Technical Delivery: Build reliable pipelines and workflows around your integrated services, helping automate testing, builds and deployment while reducing manual effort and the risk of changes reaching production.
SDKs & Developer Tooling: We build custom SDKs or implement and extend existing ones, backed by the documentation and tooling your developers need to use them effectively. Make complex functionality easier to adopt, integrate and maintain across teams and projects.
We help game studios of every size to build, launch, and grow. From indie passion projects, Triple-I, AA, AAA titles and everything in between – in terms of scale, you name it, we’ve done it – and now we’re ready to help you too.
No-Nonsense Approach
Straight-forward, friendly, and we love to work with other teams. We deliver and work hand-in-hand with studios to ensure we’re not just delivering but also helping them make the best game they can.
Results-Driven
In game development, results are what matters – it’s not just about delivering code and infrastructure. We make sure we deliver what you and your game really need – hitting budgets, faster launches, lowering risk, better player retention, and cost-efficient scaling.
Tech Wizards, Not Just Coders
We optimise, improve and future-proof your game and the player experience it provides – setting the scene for prolonged success by ensuring we know the game can be developed, iterated-upon and improved in the future and not just what’s needed for the short term.
Let’s build something amazing together.
If you need help with game design consultancy, backend development, cloud engineering, data analytics, or seamless integrations, Code Wizards is ready!
