The force beneath the surface...
Your creative vision. Our powerful expertise.
We help top studios deliver market-shaking games and apps—on time, on budget, and powered by our extensible network engine, Elements.
Our clients and partners
In gratitude to some of the great clients we've served over the years, from real money gaming to console and mobile.
At Namazu Studios we deliver for game studios under pressure.
How it works
Publish and ship in 3 steps
Optimize all of your game's elements effortlessly right from your admin dashboard and launch your game on the fly.
Build your game
Use a combination of pre-built APIs and custom code to build a complete backend solution for your game.
Launch your title
Push code using familiar development tools, such as git, to your own instance of Namazu Elements.
Manage your in-game content
Scale and manage your in-game economy and experiences using Namazu Element's live operations CMS tools.
For Producers
Unlike other backends, Namazu Elements lets you edit in the CMS
No-code / Low-code liveops platform
Streamlines collaboration between producers and developers by building elements of your game directly in the CMS. Save time and effort with no-code low-code.
Open source network engine
Permissive licensing lets you hop right into Namazu Elements without worrying about legal agreements up front.
Easy user account management
Secure management of user PII. Boot users who break community guidelines from the Namazu Elements CMS.
Easy LiveOps content management
Create new quests or in-game items in the Elements CMS. Hand off to your developers to build the hooks. Then manage those same components via the CMS.
For Designers
Namazu Elements accelerates game development
Streamline your game design and development workflow
You've just designed a kickass game. Leave the backend services to Elements. From user access, to leaderboards and in-game missions, to Elements enables your team to manage your in-game economy instantly.
Use the game engine of your choice
Whether you're designing in Unity, Unreal or Godot, your backend infrastructure doesn't have to be rocket science. Let Elements do the heavy lifting for you.
Build your beta with the open source Elements Community edition
Build your beta on the free Elements Community edition. When you are ready to scale your game, let Elements Cloud provide you with high-performance networking and content delivery.
For Engineers
Namazu Elements is fully customizable
Use the IDE of your choice
The Namazu Elements SDK is fully available on Maven Central and will work directly within the IDE of your choice with complete debugging support for all custom endpoints and workflows.
Fully documented APIs
A fully documented SDK enables maximum productivity from your team of developers virtually eliminating guesswork.
Built on proven technology
Deploy Namazu Elements with industry standard tools like Docker, enabling maximum productivity from your development team.
Enable instant deployments
Push your code to Git, automatically triggering a pipeline that deploys the application to cloud instances. The process in Elements is fully automated, ensuring seamless updates with minimal effort and no manual intervention.
platform integration
Easy integration with all game engines
The Elements REST API has been fully tested to work with your game engine of choice
Unity
Unreal
Godot
Build on the fly
Update live content with the Namazu Elements CMS
Manage your in-game content directly in the Namazu Elements CMS. Minus the rebuild or redeployment.
What people are saying
Explore genuine feedback from clients
Our impact is best seen through the tangible results and compelling stories of our partnerships.
"A core component of our game Drop Squad™: The Escape are the PvP and tournament modes. With Elements, the Namazu Studios team gave us a seamless solution that conjoins the spirit of both gaming worlds!"
TJ Fechser
Bush League Games
"We contracted with Namazu Studios for their expertise in iPhone development, game design, and user interfaces. Their team had an extremely efficient workflow with flexibility to accommodate our team’s way of working. I highly recommend them and would relish the chance to work with them in the future."
Dan Hewitt
Konami
"IKIN has benefited greatly from using Namazu Studios for multiple projects; Building out machine learning frameworks to create novel user experiences. Namazu has successfully built both cross-platform and embeddable back end A.I. frameworks that will be the foundation of many new experiences for users in the years to come."
Taylor Scott
CTO - Ikin
Frequently Asked Questions
We're here to answer all your questions
Quick answers to questions you may have. Can't find what you're looking for? Check out our full documentation.
Yes! Namazu Elements provides industry standard OIDC support. Simply copy your credentials into our CMS and unlock immediate interoperability between your existing application and Namazu Elements.
Namazu Elements supports any language supported by the Java Virtual Machine. This includes Java, Kotlin, Scala, JavaScript, Python, and many more!
Namazu Elements' horizontal scalability places virtually no limit on the number of people playing your game at any given time.
Yes. Namazu Elements’ multi-tenant architecture allows you to publish multiple titles within a single instance of Namazu Elements across multiple platforms like PC, mobile, web and console.
Namazu Elements' server authoritative architecture prevents item duplication and other exploits that affect your in-game economy. Elements’ CMS allows you to quickly ban bad actors disrupting your game's community.
Namazu Elements follows industry accepted best practices for access control encryption and data security, enabling your studio to comply with security regulations like CCPA and GDPR.