Case Study: 5th Planet Games achieves faster mobile gameplay and simplified image management with Instart Logic

5th Planet Games Delivers Dynamic, High Quality and Personalized Gaming Experiences to Mobile Devices

5th Planet Games, a Rocklin, CA developer of story-driven, content-rich social and mobile titles (including Dawn of the Dragons and Clash of the Dragons), needed faster, more predictable delivery for mobile players. Its legacy CDN forced costly image-management workarounds for many device types, had long cache-clear delays and slow support, and struggled to deliver consistent performance across congested wireless networks and traffic spikes.

After testing, 5th Planet migrated key traffic to Instart Logic with a simple DNS change and gained cloud-based application delivery with automatic image resizing. The switch produced a 10% overall web speed boost (with much larger, visible gains on mobile), removed the need to host multiple image versions, improved scalability and reliability, and provided rapid, engineer-level support that streamlined mobile releases and improved player experience.

5th Planet Games

David Lease

CTO, 5th Planet Games