Unblocking Your Roadmap with Better Tech Choices

Sep 03, 2025

Every studio starts with the same dream: make a great game, grow an audience, and keep players coming back. But somewhere between concept art and live ops, the backend bottleneck appears—and suddenly, your roadmap slows to a crawl.

It doesn’t matter how fun your core loop is if your team is stuck wrestling with infrastructure. If your engineers are patching servers instead of prototyping features, or if a simple UI change means weeks of backend rework, you’ve hit the bottleneck.

The Hidden Cost of Building Your Own Backend

Most developers underestimate the ongoing cost of backend engineering. You may start with “just a leaderboard” or “just a login system,” but as your game scales, so does the workload: matchmaking, player inventory, live events, notifications, payments, analytics, and more.

Each of these becomes a permanent maintenance item—demanding resources long after the initial build. For small studios, that means slowing innovation. For larger teams, it means diverting millions into infrastructure that doesn’t differentiate your game.

Signs You’ve Hit the Bottleneck

Delayed Features: Promised content slips because backend updates aren’t ready.
Overloaded Engineers: Gameplay coders spend more time debugging infrastructure than building fun.
Unpredictable Costs: Cloud bills spike as player numbers grow, eroding your margin.
Fragile Live Ops: Downtime, lag, or broken events risk your relationship with players.

Choosing Better Tech

The way out isn’t brute force—it’s making smarter choices. Backend shouldn’t be the anchor dragging your roadmap. Instead, it should be the platform that accelerates it.

“Every developer has felt the pain of waiting on backend fixes before they can ship a feature. That frustration isn’t inevitable. With the right foundation, your team can move faster, ship smoother, and keep the focus on making the game fun.”
— Ali El Rhermoul, CTO, Beamable

That’s why Beamable exists. With Unity- and Unreal-native SDKs, pre-built microservices, and a private cloud deployment model, we give studios the foundation to:

Ship Faster: Skip months of backend build time with ready-to-use services.
Scale Confidently: Grow from hundreds to millions of players without downtime.

Stay Focused: Keep your team building gameplay, not reinventing infrastructure.

Real-World Proof

When Mythical Games launched Pudgy Party, they needed infrastructure that could handle scale on day one. By deploying on Beamable’s Private Cloud and leveraging pre-built services like matchmaking, leaderboards, and notifications, their developers stayed focused on gameplay instead of backend plumbing.

Similarly, the team behind Doctor Who: Lost in Time used Beamable to support live events and real-time player engagement. Rather than losing months to building custom infrastructure, they tapped into ready-made systems and launched faster—without sacrificing reliability.