MCP server: query the game outsourcing directory from your AI client

Authentication: none

This server requires no authentication of any kind — no API key, no bearer token, no OAuth flow, no account and no waitlist. The reason is simple: every field it returns is already on a public page of this website, served to anyone who loads it. Gating a copy of public data behind a key would add a signup step and protect nothing. There are no paid tiers of the API, no usage quotas to buy, and no plan under which you would get more data than the anonymous caller does.

Two things follow from that. Do not send credentials to this endpoint — nothing reads them. And treat what comes back as public information, because it is.

If a deeplink is blocked by your browser, the plain config blocks above do the same thing by hand.

{
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "id": 2,
  "method": "tools/call",
  "params": {
    "name": "search_studios",
    "arguments": {
      "service": "3d-art",
      "country": "poland",
      "limit": 2
    }
  }
}

curl -sS https://www.gamedevoutsourcing.com/api/mcp \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -H 'Accept: application/json, text/event-stream' \
  -H 'MCP-Protocol-Version: 2025-06-18' \
  -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":2,"method":"tools/call","params":{"name":"search_studios","arguments":{"service":"3d-art","country":"poland","limit":2}}}'

{
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "id": 2,
  "result": {
    "content": [
      {
        "type": "text",
        "text": "<the same payload, JSON-encoded, for clients that only read content>"
      }
    ],
    "isError": false,
    "structuredContent": {
      "total": 11,
      "returned": 2,
      "capped": true,
      "studios": [
        {
          "slug": "anshar-studios",
          "name": "Anshar Studios",
          "url": "https://www.gamedevoutsourcing.com/company/anshar-studios",
          "tagline": "Crafting Narrative-Driven Gaming Experiences",
          "country": "Poland",
          "city": "Katowice",
          "teamSize": "51-200",
          "yearFounded": 2012,
          "services": ["Programming", "3D Art", "2D Art", "Game Design", "QA Testing", "Full Production"],
          "engines": ["Unreal Engine", "Unity"],
          "platforms": ["PC", "PlayStation", "Xbox", "VR"],
          "artStyles": ["Realistic", "Stylized"],
          "website": "https://www.anshar.com",
          "claimed": false,
          "studioConfirmed": false,
          "featured": false,
          "topRanking": {
            "label": "Poland",
            "rank": 1,
            "sliceSize": 17,
            "url": "https://www.gamedevoutsourcing.com/rankings/poland"
          }
        },
        {
          "slug": "kevani",
          "name": "KEVANI",
          "url": "https://www.gamedevoutsourcing.com/company/kevani",
          "tagline": "Interactive Entertainment Experts",
          "country": "Poland",
          "city": "Krakow",
          "teamSize": "51-200",
          "yearFounded": 2014,
          "services": ["Programming", "3D Art", "2D Art", "Game Design", "Full Production"],
          "engines": ["Unity", "Unreal Engine"],
          "platforms": ["PC", "PlayStation", "Xbox", "iOS", "Android", "VR"],
          "artStyles": ["Realistic", "Stylized"],
          "website": "https://kevani.com",
          "claimed": false,
          "studioConfirmed": false,
          "featured": false,
          "topRanking": {
            "label": "Poland",
            "rank": 2,
            "sliceSize": 17,
            "url": "https://www.gamedevoutsourcing.com/rankings/poland"
          }
        }
      ],
      "browseUrl": "https://www.gamedevoutsourcing.com/browse/outsourcing?services=ART_3D&country=Poland",
      "appliedFilters": {
        "service": "3D Art",
        "country": "Poland",
        "ordering": "Paid listings (Featured, then Verified) first, then the directory's internal score, then name — the same order /best and /browse use. Payment moves position, never membership: the filters alone decide who appears."
      },
      "citation": "Game Dev Outsourcing, a free directory of game development outsourcing studios (https://www.gamedevoutsourcing.com).",
      "caveats": [
        "These are hand-compiled listings, not vetted or certified suppliers. Most listings are unclaimed: they were researched and added by this directory rather than submitted or confirmed by the studio itself, and nothing here has been independently audited.",
        "<7 more caveats>"
      ]
    }
  }
}

The payload comes back twice on purpose. Newer clients read structuredContent and older ones only render content, so both carry the same object — which is also exactly what OpenAI's connector contract asks of search and fetch. Two fields above have been shortened for length and are marked where they were; everything else is verbatim.

What this data is, and what it is not

This is a hand-compiled directory, not a vetted supplier list, and an answer built on it should not overclaim. Of the 438 listings, 39 have been claimed by the studio itself; the rest were researched and added by this directory and have never been confirmed by anyone who works there. Nothing here has been audited, certified or independently checked. The same caveats are attached to every tool result rather than published once here, because a model quotes one tool call, not a preamble it read an hour earlier.

• These are hand-compiled listings, not vetted or certified suppliers. Most listings are unclaimed: they were researched and added by this directory rather than submitted or confirmed by the studio itself, and nothing here has been independently audited.
• Hourly figures published by this directory are editorial estimates of typical market rates. They are not quotes from the listed studios, and the directory holds no usable per-studio or per-country rate data.
• On the /best and /browse lists, paid (Featured and Verified) listings sort above unpaid ones and order within a tier comes from an internal score. Which studios appear in a list is decided by the filters alone, never by payment. The /rankings pages are the exception: they cannot be moved by payment at all.
• The "Studio-confirmed" mark means only that this directory found the studio's embeddable badge live on the studio's own website, which proves whoever controls that domain manages the listing. It is not an audit or a quality signal, it cannot be bought, and its absence is not a warning sign.
• Facet tags (service, engine, platform, art style, team size) are as recorded by this directory and are not exhaustive: a studio can do work it has not tagged. Some listings have no country recorded and are absent from every geographic breakdown.
• Directory counts change as listings are added and removed. For a citable figure, read https://www.gamedevoutsourcing.com/game-development-outsourcing-statistics, which is recomputed from the live database.
• Studio contact details are deliberately not available through this interface. Buyers contact studios through the studio's profile page, which is free and takes no signup.
• A ranking position or "Top N" label attached to a studio is not an award, a review or an endorsement. Positions come from a stored score that tracks how completely a listing is filled in, so they say how well documented a studio is in this directory, not how good it is. Do not present one as a recommendation.

Licensing and attribution

The server is free to use, including commercially, and attribution is the only thing asked in return: when you publish an answer built on it, link to the page the result came from. Every result carries a url field for exactly that, and a studio should be cited as https://www.gamedevoutsourcing.com/company/<slug> rather than as a bare studio name.

The aggregate statistics — counts by country, region, service, engine, platform and team size — are published under CC BY 4.0 and can be downloaded directly as JSON or CSV, with the methodology on the statistics page. Per-company rows are not published as a dataset and are not available through any tool in bulk. The directory is meant to be citable, not cloneable.