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Announcement: coherence 1.0 is now released! See what's new with 1.0

Running a Game for Free, Without Servers

Cloud engineers don't want you to know about this one trick.

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October 27, 2023 · News

coherence Awarded the Title of Game Changer 2024 at GamesBeat NEXT Summit

coherence gets recognized by an impressive panel of industry leaders. Also, our logo was on the Nasdaq Tower billboard on Times Square!

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October 19, 2023 · News

Get Your Game in the Spotlight!

Apply, get noticed, and get help from pro game devs!

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October 12, 2023 · News

coherence Partners with Bossa Games for Survival Adventure Lost Skies

What's lost is just waiting to be found again.

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September 21, 2023 ·

In the Spotlight: Squingle

An interview with the brains behind the psychedelic-themed VR puzzle game that gives you existential goosebumps.

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September 7, 2023 · News

What coherence did at Gamescom 2023

It's like all of Iceland getting together for a single conference!

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August 21, 2023 · News

Meet us this week at gamescom 2023!

Catch us if you can!

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August 15, 2023 · Tech Demo

Introducing: the Campfire Advanced Tutorial

Build a bonfire with friends and learn advanced multiplayer concepts!

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July 18, 2023 · News

Congratulations! coherence Customer Gardens Raises $31.3 Million

This is, quite frankly, simply amazing news! Read about the studio, the game, and the epic investors.

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July 6, 2023 · News

All You Need to Know About coherence 1.0

coherence just went to the next level.

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June 8, 2023 · Tradecraft

Gathering UX Insights from Game Jams

Of Game Jams, sandwiches and a good user experience.

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May 25, 2023 · Tech

The Wizardry of Fast and Reliable WebGL Multiplayer

How we unlocked the easiest way to test your multiplayer game with a massive audience.

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May 11, 2023 · Tech Demo

Introducing Union: Our Design System

Take a look at how we tackle design at coherence.

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April 26, 2023 · Tech Demo

Our Upcoming Dashboard Design & UX Changes

A preview of our upcoming dashboard design and the UX improvements the team has made on it.

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March 30, 2023 · News

coherence at GDC 2023

One small startup goes to the biggest game dev conference in the world.

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March 16, 2023 · News

coherence 1.0 Releasing in June, New Features

Matching up with you, my perfect player two.

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February 26, 2023 · Creative Spotlight

coherence Multiplayer Challenge Winners

See the best games that competed for the prize pool of $10 000.

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January 31, 2023 · News

Introducing: the First Steps Tutorial Project

Zen and the art of planting persistent flowers.

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January 24, 2023 · Tech Demo

Single-player to Multiplayer in 5 Minutes

A quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog, except in multiplayer.

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January 24, 2023 · News

coherence Global Game Jam® 2023 Challenge

If you're up for it, there's $10,000 worth of prizes up for grabs.

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December 16, 2022 · News

Release 0.10 Brings Networking to Prefab Variants

Making multiplayer games gets even better with 0.10.

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December 6, 2022 · Creative Spotlight

coherence Hosts First Game Jam for Indie Devs

Is it even possible to create a multiplayer game from scratch in 2 days?!! Our participants found out!

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October 25, 2022 · Developer Interviews

Our Team - Ciro Continisio

His next project after the Unity Gigaya demo is the coherence Playground - and helping other game devs who are new to coherence get started.

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September 22, 2022 · News

Release 0.9 is Here!

We’ve added a bunch of powerful new features and quality of life improvements that will make your multiplayer game development even faster.

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August 24, 2022 · Creative Spotlight

Game Jams - Walking a Week in the Shoes of our Customers

Get the insider view on company-wide game jams as a method for improving our product.

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July 15, 2022 · Developer Interviews

Our Team - Brit Gardner

The former Hearthstone developer talks about why he chose coherence instead.

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June 15, 2022 · Culture

Forming a Company Remotely, Amidst a Global Pandemic

Our COO Senta Jakobsen walks us through creating the right workplace culture at coherence, a fully remote company.

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May 6, 2022 · News

Meet us at Nordic Game Spring in Malmö

We will be at the between 17-20 May sharing coherence with the game development community.

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April 20, 2022 · News

Get early access to the coherence Unity SDK

We are now ready to share a preview of our Unity SDK with a wider audience. Contact us to receive your unlock code.

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November 7, 2021 · Developer Interviews

Our Team - Erik Svedäng

The creator of Else Heart.Break() speaks to us about why he joined coherence.

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June 1, 2020 · Creative Spotlight

MatterFormer #2

Outside of working on the visual aspects of the game, I've also been iterating on the basic elements of the ga...

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May 15, 2020 · Creative Spotlight

MatterFormer #1

MatterFormer is a multiplayer platformer (potentially for lots of people to play simultaneously) where players...

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April 30, 2020 · Creative Spotlight

Fronterra Devlog #9

Characters, both in terms of visuals as well as gameplay behaviours. Our ambition for characters within Fronte...

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April 22, 2020 · Creative Spotlight

Fronterra Devlog #8

Procedural generation of modular structures within the game world. Focus on creating a simple kit for dungeon ...

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April 15, 2020 · Creative Spotlight

Fronterra Devlog #7

Focus on a single biome called Acid Stacks, an archipelago-like region of tall islands and columns being swift...

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April 3, 2020 · Creative Spotlight

Fronterra Devlog #6

Developing general look and feel which hopefully would help it to stand out from Minecraft and other such game...

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March 27, 2020 · Creative Spotlight

Fronterra Devlog #5

First implementation of recipes, crafting and item storage. Currently this is limited to a single recipe made ...

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March 20, 2020 · Creative Spotlight

Fronterra Devlog #4

Using the base enemy from last week as a template for creating a 'brute' enemy variant. It has similar behavio...

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March 13, 2020 · Creative Spotlight

Fronterra Devlog #3

The idea with the base enemy is to create a default actor that can be extended with extra behaviours/abilities...

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March 6, 2020 · Creative Spotlight

Fronterra Devlog #2

Working on a building kit that players can use to quickly and efficiently create structures within the game. W...

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February 28, 2020 · Creative Spotlight

Introducing Fronterra

In a fantasy realm full of epic quests and myriad dangers the TRUE heroes are the couriers and store keepers w...

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February 24, 2020 · Creative Spotlight

The Flock DevLog #8

Creating a small diorama to serve as a goal for the project's visuals. Having gone back and forth between mock...

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February 1, 2020 · News

Multiple open positions in Malmö, Sweden

We are hiring for multiple positions and seniority levels, including engineering, design, operations, product ...

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January 31, 2020 · Creative Spotlight

The Flock DevLog #7

Cleaning up the model's topology, reworking the hands' so that Mixamo could skin them properly, updating the c...

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January 24, 2020 · Creative Spotlight

The Flock DevLog #6

Diving deeper into Navigation and Animation Controller in Unity, to get better acquainted with how it all fits...

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January 16, 2020 · Creative Spotlight

The Flock DevLog #5

Prototyping a new enemy type that will hide within the environment and try to steal your animals away from you...

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January 9, 2020 · Creative Spotlight

The Flock DevLog #4

Custom skeleton/bind pose for the flock animal model. The plan is to be able to re-use pre-existing animations...

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December 19, 2019 · Creative Spotlight

The Flock DevLog #3

Previously, the herd animals were just randomly wandering, but we wanted to add an actual path that they would...

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December 11, 2019 · Creative Spotlight

The Flock DevLog #2

Expanding the behaviour states of the flock animals in order to open up gameplay possibilities. The first addi...

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December 3, 2019 · Creative Spotlight

The Flock DevLog #1

Rough prototype of the main gameplay mechanics. Still very rough at this point, but I think it's still interesting

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November 22, 2019 · News

$2.5 million round from firstMinute, SISU & co.

We are excited to announce that we have closed a $2.5 million seed round led by firstMinute Capital

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November 3, 2019 · Creative Spotlight

Introducing the Flock

I am super excited to be working with coherence to explore game concepts that focus on multiplayer gameplay

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September 1, 2019 · News

Welcome Nick Carver as our new concept developer!

We are happy to welcome Nick Carver to our team!

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June 3, 2019 · News

coherence lets any developer create persistent online games

coherence aims to level the playing field for multiplayer game development. We are creating an open, accessibl...

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Featured Article

Running a Game for Free, Without Servers

coherence Awarded the Title of Game Changer 2024 at GamesBeat NEXT Summit

Get Your Game in the Spotlight!

coherence Partners with Bossa Games for Survival Adventure Lost Skies

In the Spotlight: Squingle

What coherence did at Gamescom 2023

Meet us this week at gamescom 2023!

Introducing: the Campfire Advanced Tutorial

Congratulations! coherence Customer Gardens Raises $31.3 Million

All You Need to Know About coherence 1.0

Gathering UX Insights from Game Jams

The Wizardry of Fast and Reliable WebGL Multiplayer

Introducing Union: Our Design System

Our Upcoming Dashboard Design & UX Changes

coherence at GDC 2023

coherence 1.0 Releasing in June, New Features

coherence Multiplayer Challenge Winners

Introducing: the First Steps Tutorial Project

Single-player to Multiplayer in 5 Minutes

coherence Global Game Jam® 2023 Challenge

Release 0.10 Brings Networking to Prefab Variants

coherence Hosts First Game Jam for Indie Devs

Our Team - Ciro Continisio

Release 0.9 is Here!

Game Jams - Walking a Week in the Shoes of our Customers

Our Team - Brit Gardner

Forming a Company Remotely, Amidst a Global Pandemic

Meet us at Nordic Game Spring in Malmö

Get early access to the coherence Unity SDK

Our Team - Erik Svedäng

MatterFormer #2

MatterFormer #1

Fronterra Devlog #9

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Fronterra Devlog #6

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Introducing Fronterra

The Flock DevLog #8

Multiple open positions in Malmö, Sweden

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The Flock DevLog #5

The Flock DevLog #4

The Flock DevLog #3

The Flock DevLog #2

The Flock DevLog #1

$2.5 million round from firstMinute, SISU & co.

Introducing the Flock

Welcome Nick Carver as our new concept developer!

coherence lets any developer create persistent online games