All-Star Game Studio Gardens Partners with Pragma For Elite Online Multiplayer Support
14 Agosto 2024 - 9:01PM
Business Wire
Pragma’s world-class toolset will enable the
creative scope of the team’s upcoming live service effort
To access newly-released, exclusive game stills
from the studio visit: https://pragma.gg/case-studies/Gardens
Remote-first game development studio, Gardens, announces a new
partnership with the backend game engine, Pragma, to enable the
online multiplayer ambitions of the all-star team. Their upcoming
game will be an ever-evolving online PvPvE shared fantasy
adventure, and the team found in Pragma a perfect fit for the
online and live service needs of the expansive world they’re
creating.
Pragma was founded by the engineering leaders who built the
platforms for some of the largest live service games including
League of Legends, Destiny 2, and Plants vs. Zombies 2. Pragma
powers services like accounts, matchmaking, analytics,
monetization, and player data for the world’s most ambitious online
games. The Pragma backend game engine is a fully extensible source
code product, allowing the technology teams in the studio to
support the creative approaches of game designers. Bridging the gap
between capabilities and creativity in an environment that is often
challenging, Pragma leads the way to saving millions of dollars in
costs and years of development time all while effectively
de-risking the launch of the game utilizing its advantages.
With today’s announcement of the partnership between Gardens and
Pragma, the Gardens team further commits to the creative goals of
their upcoming unannounced game, unrestricted by technical
limitations thanks to the tools of the backend engine. “It has been
really great working with our team of game designers to get all of
their ideas and come back with implementations. And I am much more
flexible and can accommodate their unique requests with Pragma
because they give me an extensible system that lets me not give
just a one-size-fits-all answer,” said Serge Knystautas, Head of
Engineering at Gardens Interactive. Co-founder Stephen Bell added:
“With all of our choices we’re very careful and take care to do our
due diligence and deep dive on things. Ultimately, Pragma was the
clear choice.”
The Pragma Backend Game Engine gives the development team a
single backend solution that is consistent and encompasses all the
basic needs of an online live service game, while also giving them
the tools to customize what they need as sophistication is a need.
The tech term, in the words of Knystautas, is extensibility.
Gardens was looking for a platform they could extend without having
to build from scratch and invest large amounts of resources in
maintaining the toolset.
“Gardens is one of the top gaming studios and the more we see
their vision uncovered the more we realize that we are working on a
generational game. Giving gamemakers that are at the top of their
craft tools to be able to execute on their vision is one of the
most enjoyable parts of building Pragma,” states Eden Chen, CEO at
Pragma.
Gardens was founded in 2021 by Chris Bell (Journey, What Remains
of Edith Finch, Sky: Children of the Light, Way), Lexie Dostal
(Dustforce), and Stephen Bell (Blaseball, What Remains of Edith
Finch), and has grown to include a talented team of developers from
projects such as Half-Life: Alyx, Firewatch, Ashen, Ultima Online,
God of War, Tunic, Diablo IV, Fortnite and more. The team kicked
off with support by independent backer funding, raising $4.5M in
July 2021 in a Seed round led by Transcend Fund. In 2023, Gardens
raised $31.3M in Series A funding as Lightspeed Venture Partners
and Krafton co-led an exceptional syndicate that included
connections to major gaming platforms, publishers, and industry
veterans, and which added former Microsoft Chairman John W.
Thompson, former Sony Computer Entertainment America President and
CEO Jack Tretton, former Tencent President and Take-Two CEO Ben
Feder, and Yamauchi No.10 (the Nintendo Family) to its advisory
team.
Gardens’ upcoming, yet unnamed game, builds upon the special
ways members of the team have designed shared online experiences in
the past (Journey, Sky: Children of the Light, Ashen, Blaseball,
Way), seeing players cross paths and adventure together through
shapeshifting, untamed fantasy wilds.
About Gardens
Gardens is a game studio that aims to connect the world through
play. Founded by designers of games like Journey, What Remains of
Edith Finch, Blaseball, Sky: Children of the Light, and more,
Gardens grows deeply social, living virtual worlds that bring
players together to forge lasting relationships and vibrant global
communities.
LINKS:
- Assets - Company Logo, Concept Art
- Website
- Careers page
- Contact email: hello@gardens.dev
About Pragma
Pragma has helped build some of the biggest video games and
distributed systems in the world at Riot Games, PopCap, Google,
Amazon, and EA for games like League of Legends, Valorant,
Fortnite, Destiny 2, Plants vs Zombies 2, and Eve Online. Pragma
has raised more than $50 million and is backed by leading investors
like Insight, Greylock, and Upfront.
The Pragma Backend Game Engine is the only solution that is
truly extensible. Now, game designers aren’t blocked by restrictive
black-box features and your studio isn't trapped into a framework
that you'll inevitably grow out of. The Pragma Backend Game Engine
is also capital and resource efficient because studios no longer
need to hire a large backend team and get the ultimate peace of
mind that their game will always be ready to scale.
LINKS:
- Website
- Case studies
- Backend Services House @ gamescom
- Contact email: Chris Uglietta, info@pragma.gg
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