The Multiplayer Group (MPG) is a trusted and experienced video games studio, specialising in the delivery of co-development and full-development solutions for global clients
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.
We’d love to hear about your game or IP and how you think we can help you. We have NDAs ready to go, so let us know and if helpful, we can exchange these prior to the call.
MPG is here to solve problems for our customers. We do that by listening, understanding your needs and the environment in which you wish to work, and then offering a proposed solution.
We’re able to build teams across all the core multiplayer disciplines of Software Engineering, Art, Design, Production, QA, and Data Science. We work in a slightly different way for each of the services we offer and depending on the customer’s requirements, so we’re flexible.
Projects hardly ever fit into a typical template, and part of the reason for us offering the complete range of services from 100% Co-Dev to 100% Full-Dev is so that we can be sure to pitch the solution just right. It’ll be somewhere on the scale between these two points.
The Multiplayer Group (MPG) / MPG is registered in England No. 11254980. 4th Floor 110
High Holborn, London, England, WC1V 6JS.
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