Our rock-solid team are a passionate bunch,
empowered to make incredible games alongside some
of the largest games studios in the world.
We love it when a plan comes together.
MPG was founded in 2018 by industry veterans and good friends Rik Alexander, Steve Bennett and Rocco Loscalzo. After years working together at various companies making multiplayer games and multiplayer tooling, we had the lightbulb moment that building a company focusing solely on multiplayer wasn’t as ridiculous an idea as we’d first assumed. Maybe not everyone had these skills in their studio?
Very quickly we realised that dev teams and publishers need highly skilled and experienced people to bolster their teams. The biggest studios and publishers around the world are relying more and more on this way of working which sets them up for flexibility and success. They might find that they’re unable to find the right skills for their project, or they may only want to keep a core team in the studio and use trusted partners to do the rest.
However our partners need help, we’re always able to engage with them, assess the requirements of the project and react with our proposed solution or, if we believe we aren’t able to knock it out the park, we always say no. It turns out that long term partnerships are built on trust and sometimes that requires you to say no.
With continued growth and ambitious results, MPG was acquired by Improbable in September 2019, allowing us to supercharge our ambitions whilst still remaining technology agnostic and laser focused on client success.
Having establishing ourselves as the number one Co-Dev partner in multiplayer games, and hiring the best talent in the world, at the beginning of 2022 MPG extended our services to include Full-Dev and Analytics.
In 2023, we joined the Keywords Studios Group. We levelled up and found a new home working with some awesome people across Keywords’ many studios.
Full-Dev for us is the logical next step on from Co-Dev. We’re in the enviable position of being able to work on the world’s finest and brightest multiplayer titles, which is very rare in game development. Full-Dev allows us to bring all of that experience together, mix in our years of game development heritage and provide multi-disciplinary teams of producers, artists, designers, QA and engineers, who will take full responsibility for content delivery, and deliver complete game projects from start to finish.
Groundbreaking projects and exceptional growth only happen if you’re lucky enough to hire fantastic people. We were lucky, and they are now part of the fabric of MPG. A global and diverse community that's driven to deliver success and create a company that everyone inside MPG loves to work at.
And our highly skilled Analytics team had been gathering data in stealth mode and building their powerful analytical capabilities in the 12 months running up to 2022. We can share that expertise in data science with anyone that needs it. We have a wealth of valuable data and know how to use it to make your game more compelling, more sticky, and more fun for players.
It’s been a great journey so far, and it’s only just begun (cue The Carpenters).
Our massive team has an incredible range of experience building games across all gaming platforms, including:
We are platform agnostic in terms of how we work and we’ll adapt to whatever you need. We’re experts in:
Ultimately, we’re part of your team, so we’ll seamlessly slot into your process, and integrate the right team to nail it.
Our engineers get to work on some of the largest and most ambitious games in the world! Massively Multiplayer Games, large player count FPS games, technically challenging single player games - we work on them all!
Our technology expertise covers the complete gamut of what AAA studios use and expect; Unreal Engine 4 & 5, Proprietary C++ Engines, Unity with C# and AWS. We work with whatever we need and we have people with the right skills for every eventuality.
And we don't just do multiplayer! We have plenty of specialists covering every aspect of game development: Rendering Engineers, Animation Engineers, Physics Engineers, Gameplay, AI, Core Technology, Tools, UI, Backend Services and more. You name it, we've got it covered!
Our art team is turbo-charged with cutting edge workflows, using standard and procedural tools, to help you visualise the world’s most valuable multiplayer experiences. Visually, we know what multiplayer games need: a broad yet ownable appeal that engages and delights players – helping to establish a global culture.
We also know you need technically robust assets that are easy to integrate and don’t cut on quality; created using pipelines that unlock rapid scalability. Let us widen those most stubborn art bottlenecks, or work with us to develop your ideas into the next multiplayer phenomenon.
In our view a good multiplayer mode enhances EVERY game, even ones where a multiplayer element can’t easily be identified. There’s always a way to increase your player’s retention & happiness, though sometimes you have to get a bit crazy to think of it - that’s where we can help too!
From initial planning and design of your core and meta gameplay, through launch and on to monetisation and Games as a Service, our experience and depth of knowledge will provide you with the most innovative, engaging mechanics, to ensure you capture your players’ imaginations and keep them coming back for more.
With our unique, expansive data infrastructure, advanced modelling and combined experience, we can go beyond what is normally available to studios and deliver responsive, meaningful, insight to help you build better games.
Our Data Science team can provide bespoke analysis and insight at every stage of the game development cycle, including: competitor insights, bespoke telemetry analysis, sentiment reports, market analysis, survey responses, sales forecasting, performance tracking and more.
Our highly experienced producers are adept at running small, medium and large teams any which way our clients prefer, from back of the napkin requirements to full schedule.
Stand ups, sit downs, type ups, story points, t-shirt points, poker/portfolio/roadmap/project/sprint planning, pre/full/post production, project maintenance & reporting, legal & financial - we can provide it all!
If you need to understand the cost of what it is you’d like to achieve or bolster an existing project with an additional team, bring in a team at the end of a project, or even just shore things up, we can help.
Our QA team is imbedded across multiple projects to ensure the content we deliver to our clients is greater than that which was promised. We represent the client, defend the player and support our colleagues. Providing an independent voice on the team, we strive to keep everyone focussed and invested in what they are creating.
Our incredible team is made up of global players.
We always knew we'd want to hire the best people, regardless of their location. So we set ourselves up as a remote-friendly company, well before working from home became cool!
Our HQ is in Nottingham, UK and we have MPG Canada and MPG Spain. We've got teammates in Australia, Argentina, South Africa, Serbia and (almost) everywhere in-between. This makes for a really great mix of cultures and there's always someone in a timezone close to you!
Super talented and experienced teammates.
Our people have a very impressive collective back catalogue, with an average of 6 AAA titles under their belts before they even join MPG. Many of us have worked in the industry for over 20 years, and at time of counting, we'd clocked up an impressive average of 10.8 years.
This breadth of experience means there's probably not a game you can think of that we haven't worked on, or a problem we haven't solved somewhere down the line. It also means we can offer great opportunities for learning and development for those newer to the industry.
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High Holborn, London, England, WC1V 6JS.
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