Game Development
Full-cycle games, Unity systems, custom algorithms, PC and console, mobile products, VR and AR from discovery to release.
WHAT WE DO
What We Do
Choose one specialist discipline or connect the complete stack through one senior team.
We build player-facing products, the backend and cloud systems behind them, and production AI workflows that connect models to real tools, data and users.
Backend Alchemist brings together player-facing product development, backend and cloud engineering, and applied AI. You can engage one specialist workstream without buying the rest, or use one senior team to coordinate the contracts and release plan across them.
Three disciplines, each useful on its own and stronger at the boundary.
Three disciplines, each useful on its own and stronger at the boundary.
Backend Alchemist brings together player-facing product development, backend and cloud engineering, and applied AI. You can engage one specialist workstream without buying the rest, or use one senior team to coordinate the contracts and release plan across them.
Backend & Cloud
Multiplayer, matchmaking, player services, dedicated servers, managed hosting and infrastructure for connected products.
AI Engineering
AI product integration, model adaptation, agent orchestration and realtime game AI with evaluation and operating controls.
Cross-discipline delivery
Explicit client, service, data and release contracts when a product needs two or all three disciplines to work together.
How to choose the right starting point
How to choose the right starting point
Start with the layer that contains the current risk. We scope ownership, interfaces and outcomes before proposing a team, so a focused need does not turn into an unnecessarily broad engagement.
- 01
Describe the product outcome
Tell us what users or players must be able to do and what has to work on launch day.
- 02
Locate the critical discipline
Separate client, online, infrastructure and AI concerns and identify the boundary that needs coordination.
- 03
Define a useful first delivery
Choose an audit, prototype, production milestone or managed responsibility with measurable acceptance criteria.
- 04
Scale ownership deliberately
Add disciplines or capacity only when validated product and technical needs justify them.
What every engagement makes explicit
What every engagement makes explicit
The artifacts vary by service, but responsibility and the path to a usable result do not remain implicit.
- Scope, constraints and success criteria
- Named technical ownership and integration boundaries
- Working software or a decision-ready technical asset
- Validation against performance and failure conditions
- Documentation, deployment and agreed handover or support
What every engagement makes explicit
Three disciplines, each useful on its own and stronger at the boundary.
Three disciplines, each useful on its own and stronger at the boundary.
Bad Goons
Connects Unity gameplay, custom voxel systems, multiplayer, dedicated Linux servers, containers and cloud deployment.
Three disciplines, each useful on its own and stronger at the boundary.Three disciplines, each useful on its own and stronger at the boundary.
Avander VR / Mentis
Connects an immersive client, browser content editor and cloud media backend in one production platform.
Three disciplines, each useful on its own and stronger at the boundary.
Three disciplines, each useful on its own and stronger at the boundary.
Beanstalker
Shows commercial full-cycle VR production, procedural scale, performance engineering and later multiplayer expansion.
Three disciplines, each useful on its own and stronger at the boundary.FAQ
Questions specific to this path.
Do we have to engage all three disciplines?
No. Each discipline is independently scoped and estimated. Cross-discipline work is proposed only where the product actually crosses those boundaries.
Can you work with our existing team and vendors?
Yes. We define ownership, interfaces, environments and release responsibilities so internal and external teams can deliver without hidden gaps.
What is the smallest sensible first step?
Usually a focused discovery, audit or risk prototype that produces evidence for the next architecture, budget or production decision.
NEXT STEP
Bring us the constraint, not a polished brief.
A technical lead will review the current state and recommend the smallest useful next step.
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