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Client
Adult Swim Games
Pocket Mortys
Six years as Adult Swim Games' development partner on Pocket Mortys — owning live ops, content and backend for a mobile title with millions of players.
Year
2017
Service
Live Operations
Website
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POCKET MORTYS / / CHALLENGES
The Challenge
Pocket Mortys arrived as a mobile phenomenon, built on the back of the Rick and Morty universe. Adult Swim Games needed a partner who could keep it growing years after launch, at the pace of the show itself — which meant working from unreleased episodes months ahead of air, with everything that entails. We took full ownership of live ops: new content, new features, the server architecture behind it, and a release cadence that put features in players' hands the week an episode landed.
10M+Players
800kMAU
550+Morty's
90+Updates
Our Role
What We Owned
CONTENT
- Dropping weekly content directly tied into the shows’ episodes
SERVER ARCHITECTURE
- Building a bespoke AWS stack that could scale to hundreds of thousands of players.
COMPLIANCE
- Keeping compliant with Google and IOS alongside changing privacy standards
GAME DESIGN
- Designing features, characters and dimensions from scratch inside and expanding on the established IP
POCKET MORTYS / / CHALLENGES
Full Platform Technical Stack
What We Deliver
Platforms
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iOS
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Android
Backend
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AWS
Engine
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Unity
Stack
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Node JS
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Redis
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Postgres
Technical
What Made This Hard
Shipping To A TV Schedule
Content had to land with episode air dates. We published an advert directly after the episode landed and content needed to be live then, no earlier.
01
An Evolving Mobile Market
The phones, the store policies and the privacy landscape all changed underneath us. Every one of those changes had to be absorbed without disrupting a game already in players' hands.
02
Traffic that spikes with the show
Backend had to hold under sudden load when an episode aired, we needed build an architecture that could economically grow when the show did
03
What Studios Say
Let's Work Together
Ready To Ship Something Great?
We partner with studios that need technical depth and production confidence.
Pocket Mortys
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Bendy and the ink machine
Joey Drew Studios needed a development partner they could keep coming back to and trust. Across multiple engagements, Pockets brought Bendy and the Ink Machine to PS5 and Xbox Series, rebuilt the Switch version with higher fidelity, and delivered quality-of-life improvements with full Steam Deck support.
PortingCo-Development
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- Role
- Porting, Co-Development
- Platforms
- Nintendo Switch, Playstation, Steam, Xbox
- Year
- 2026
Clive N’ Wrench
A 3D collect-a-thon platformer developed by Dinosaur Bytes Studio
Co-DevelopmentPorting
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- Role
- Co-Development, Porting
- Platforms
- Nintendo Switch, Playstation, Xbox
- Year
- 2026
Peaky Blinders: The King's Ransom
A virtual reality action-adventure game based on the television series.
Co-Development
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- Role
- Co-Development
- Platforms
- PC, Steam
- Year
- 2023
Bendy and the Dark Revival
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Co-DevelopmentMobileMultiplayer
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- Role
- Co-Development, Mobile, Multiplayer
- Platforms
- Steam, Playstation, Xbox
- Year
- 2021
Pocket Mortys
Six years as Adult Swim Games' development partner on Pocket Mortys — owning live ops, content and backend for a mobile title with millions of players.
Live OperationsMobileMultiplayer
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- Role
- Live Operations, Mobile, Multiplayer
- Platforms
- Apple App Store, Google Play Store
- Year
- 2017
Smalland: Survive the Wilds VR
An open-world survival adventure built from the ground up for Meta Quest, the world of Smalland, at the scale of a Smallfolk.
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- Role
- Virtual Reality
- Year
- 2026
Hazard Pay
A 1982 clean-up job in a Cold War research facility , taken from Godot to PS5 and Switch.
Porting
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- Numskull Games
- Role
- Porting
- Platforms
- Playstation, Nintendo Switch
- Year
- 2026
Oddworld Soulstorm
When the world-renowned studio Oddworld Inhabitants approached Pockets to lead on the development of the Enhanced Edition of Oddworld Soulstorm, they were looking for both technical and design enhancements.
Co-DevelopmentPorting
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- Role
- Co-Development, Porting
- Platforms
- Steam, Xbox
- Year
- 2026