Game Development

We help you choose the engine, or look over the custom one you already have, and set out how the core frameworks will be structured. We prototype the features carrying the most technical risk, work through the UI architecture, and get the camera, controls and character far enough along that you can feel whether they are right. You finish pre-production knowing what the full build will take and which platforms it can reach.

We build camera, controls, character and gameplay features in your engine, whether that is Unreal, Unity, Source or something custom your team already runs. Our UI designers produce the screens, art and animation, and our engineers build the frameworks driving them. We write custom tools and workflow improvements where repetitive work is costing your team time. All of it happens in your repository and to your coding standards.

We run optimization passes until the frame rate holds on the lowest-spec hardware you support, and work through the bugs that only appear once every system is switched on at the same time. We take the game through platform certification, which is the set of checks each console holder runs before a game goes on their store. Where you are shipping on several platforms, the porting work runs alongside this so the builds stay level.

We produce and test the release candidates, run the final optimization and finish the UI. On a multi-platform launch we sim-ship, which means holding every platform build to the same standard on the same date, including the certification submission for each one. We hold the change list with you, so late work goes into the first patch where it cannot be tested in time.

The engineers who built the game stay on it through launch week. We triage what comes in from players, build and test the hotfixes, and put them back through submission on every platform you shipped on. Where a crash comes from a system we wrote, it goes to the person who wrote it. We work at that pace until the reports slow down.

We build the new features and content, and rework the parts of the UI that live data shows people struggling with. Optimization carries on as the game gets heavier with each update. If you decide to add a platform now, we take the port on and your own team stays on the live game. We also pick up the engine and tooling work that got deferred during launch.

We upgrade the engine version as new releases land, keep the build working against new platform toolkits and hardware, and port the game to platforms that did not exist when you started. We add features years after the original team has moved on, working from the codebase as it stands. We keep the project buildable and the toolchain current on games nobody has compiled in a year or more.