We are a Sydney game-tech studio building custom engines, rollback netcode, and live-ops platforms for indie teams and mid-size studios across Australia. Warm craft, brutal performance.
A four-stage build cabin. Every stage has a fixed price band, a demo day, and a written handover so you always know what ships next.
1–2 weeks · from A$4,800
We map your game loop, target platforms, and performance ceiling, then benchmark your current build. You leave with a technical design doc and a fixed roadmap.
3–5 weeks · from A$18,000
A vertical slice on the real engine core — input, rendering, and one networked match. We demo every Friday at the Holt Street studio or over a shared build.
8–16 weeks · quoted per scope
Full feature build with rollback multiplayer, deterministic simulation, and load-tested backend. Weekly builds, tracked in your own dashboard.
Ongoing · from A$3,200/mo
Release-day war room, crash triage, and a live-ops calendar for events and patches. We stay on the pager so your team can sleep.
Pick one or let us handle the whole cabin. Every engagement includes source, docs, and a knowledge-transfer week.
from A$45,000
A bespoke C++/Rust engine core tuned to your genre — 2D fighters, cozy sims, or 60fps mobile. Editor tooling, asset pipeline, and profiler included.
from A$28,000
Rollback and deterministic lockstep netcode with a matchmaking backend that survives launch spikes. Region routing across Sydney, Singapore, and US-West.
from A$3,200 / month
Event calendars, remote config, A/B tooling, and a player-health dashboard. We run the ops so your designers ship content, not firefight servers.
Warm pine desks, cold hard frame times. A look at where the work happens.
The build cabin — pine desks and triple monitors
Playtest afternoon in the Holt Street lounge
Netcode whiteboard after a rollback session
Release-day war room, coffee and dashboards
Average 4.8 out of 5 across 126 client reviews.
Based on 126 reviews
"They rebuilt our fighting-game netcode in six weeks and our rollback finally feels invisible. Median ping in the Sydney region dropped from 40ms to 12ms."
"The live-ops team caught a memory leak on launch night before players ever noticed. Worth every dollar of the on-call retainer."
"Our cozy farming sim runs at a locked 60fps on five-year-old phones now. Their custom engine core is a genuinely lovely thing to work in."
Still stuck? Call the studio or send a note and we usually reply within one business day.
Custom engine builds start at A$45,000 for a focused genre core and scale with platform count and tooling depth. After the discovery stage you receive a fixed roadmap with price bands per milestone, so there are no open-ended invoices.
Yes. Roughly a third of our clients are solo or two-person teams. For smaller budgets we often start with the playable prototype stage so you get a real vertical slice before committing to full production.
We ship to PC, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation, Xbox, iOS, and Android. We build bespoke C++ and Rust engine cores, and we also augment existing Unity and Unreal projects when a full custom engine is not the right call.
You do, in full. Every engagement hands over the complete source repository, documentation, and a knowledge-transfer week so your team can maintain and extend the work without us.
Our studio is at 62 Holt Street in Surry Hills and we love hosting playtests and workshops there. We work remotely with teams across Australia and run weekly demos over shared builds for interstate clients.
The studio is open Monday to Friday, 9am to 6pm AEST. Live-ops retainer clients get 24/7 on-call incident cover with a paging escalation for launch windows and major events.
Send the loop, the platforms, and the launch you are dreaming about. We reply within one business day.
Phone
+61 2 9380 6024Studio
62 Holt Street, Surry Hills NSW 2010
Hours
Mon–Fri, 9am–6pm AEST