Lucid Sight has raised $2.58 million to launch its own cloud-hosting multiplayer gaming service called Colyseus Arena. Colyseus Arena is a fully managed solution that handles server management, infrastructure, and scaling so that game makers can focus on design and development. This move comes after Lucid Sight acquired Colyseus, the popular open-source multiplayer framework which has had over 300,000 downloads since it was created six years ago.
“Our goal with Arena is to bring that cost way down, so more styles of casual, hypercasual, and NFT games can afford rich multiplayer experiences,” said Lucid Sight CEO Randy Saaf. “Colyseus will always be open-source and we made the lowest tier of Arena free because we wanted no barrier for developers to dive in and get to fun faster.”
With Colyseus Arena, game developers can set up, manage and update their servers with a few clicks from an intuitive administration dashboard. Features include the ability to manage servers and add server-side logic from an intuitive dashboard, optimized server configuration and infrastructure setup, global availability with seven data centers and regional access points, worry-free scaling with tier 4 and up plans so when your game peaks there will be no interruptions, and more.
Lucid Sight began accepting Colyseus Arena early access sign-ups in February and it has since amassed hundreds of customers with games supporting millions of daily active users. Colyseus Arena can be used by all types of game developers but it proves uniquely powerful for multiplayer games that require a flexible server hosting solution. By utilizing a modern containers-centric technology stack, developers have instant scalability with a pay-for-usage billing model.
(All information was provided by VentureBeat)
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