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August 15, 2025 · News

coherence 1.8: Networked Voice Chat with Dissonance

Come get some low-latency, push-to-talk, positional audio with echo cancellation!

August 11, 2025 · News

coherence at Gamescom and devcom 2025

We've got a packed schedule, but still a little room left for meeting. Come say hi and let's talk about your next multiplayer project!

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July 21, 2025 · News

coherence at Develop Brighton 2025

What we noticed about the games industry at Develop Brighton 2025.

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May 29, 2025 · News

coherence 1.7: Advanced Simulator Authority

This release has a big update to Simulators in coherence, improving security for a better player experience. (And lots more!)

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April 28, 2025 · News

coherence 1.6 Brings Player Authentication on Steam, PlayStation, Xbox, Epic, Nintendo, and more

The world is your securely authenticated oyster.

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April 10, 2025 · Tech

10 Reasons Why coherence Should Be Your Single-Player to Multiplayer Tool

Yes, it's a listicle. But with animated GIFS!

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April 4, 2025 · Developer Interviews

Prototype to Launch in 4 weeks - Don't Get Got

Bossa turns a shelved prototype into a live multiplayer game in weeks, using coherence.

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March 12, 2025 · Developer Interviews

Bossa takes on AAA level online multiplayer with coherence!

Try out the Lost Skies Demo on Steam now to see coherence in action.

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March 11, 2025 · News

Meet coherence at GDC 2025

Just one week to go until San Fran!

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March 5, 2025 · News

coherence 1.5 Makes 24H Cloud Storage Available for Your Games

Short and sweet can apparently also apply to cloud storage.

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January 31, 2025 · News

coherence 1.4 Brings Ordered Commands, Latest Unity 6 LTS, and More

The amount of bugs we took out with this release rivals Helldivers 2.

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January 20, 2025 · News

Poncle Announces Online Co-op for Vampire Survivors - Built with coherence!

If you can sync the Vampire Survivors endgame, you can sync anything.

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December 12, 2024 · News

coherence is Now a Unity Verified Solution!

Reviewed and tested by Unity. Easier and faster to use than ever before!

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November 5, 2024 · News

We're Changing How We Do Pricing

You'll like where this is going, we guarantee ;)

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September 17, 2024 · News

coherence 1.3 Released

Free performance boost, bandwidth savings, and solid bug reporting now available.

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September 3, 2024 · Tech

coherence is the Networking Solution for the Entire Lifecycle of Your Multiplayer Game

Give your game the staying power it needs for the best chance at success.

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August 28, 2024 · News

Discovering Unrecognized Multiplayer Gems at Gamescom 2024

I travelled 10 hours to Gamescom to find interesting multiplayer indie(-ish) games. Weirdly, they all start with a C - like coherence!

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June 4, 2024 · Tech Demo

Retrofitting Multiplayer - HELLFRONT: HONEYMOON

Can adding multiplayer to a single-player game be easier than you think?

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May 16, 2024 · News

coherence 1.2 - Introducing Support for Unity's MPPM and ParrelSync

You can now create your own band of Clone Editors.

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April 11, 2024 · Tech

Networking Avatars By Using Ready Player Me

You ask a simple question in our Community forum. We do a full exploration and create a tutorial video.

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April 5, 2024 ·

We Discovered New coherence-Powered Games at GDC 2024!

Jonathan shares his GDC 2024 experience and talks about the power of networking, Steam Decks, and portable routers.

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March 15, 2024 · News

Meet coherence at GDC 2024

See you in San Francisco!

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January 30, 2024 · Tradecraft

Multiplayer Unlocked, Sanity Saved

Two former Triple-A Development Directors briefly discuss life before and after coherence.

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December 21, 2023 · News

coherence 1.1 Takes Flight

Spaceships with fully networked crews at your disposal.

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November 2, 2023 · Tech

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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