Case Study: Backflip Studios achieves faster game scaling and data-driven insights with Looker

Backflip Studios scales mobile games with Google Cloud Platform

Backflip Studios, the mobile game developer behind titles like DragonVale, Paper Toss, and Ninjump, needed a fast, scalable backend to support frequent game updates, sudden traffic spikes, and growing data analysis needs. Using Looker alongside Google Cloud Platform services such as App Engine, BigQuery, and Cloud Storage, the company aimed to keep development moving quickly while reducing the burden of managing infrastructure.

Looker helped Backflip Studios centralize and analyze player data more effectively, while Google Cloud Platform handled autoscaling and server management. As a result, Backflip Studios could double or triple capacity during traffic surges, run queries much faster with BigQuery than with its old SQL database, and launch DragonVale in just six months with a very small team.

Backflip Studios

Dale Thoms

Co-Founder