Priya N.
Studio Director & Lead Engine Programmer
16 years across two shipped AAA arena shooters. Owns your technical roadmap end to end.
Game & IT Studio — Fitzroy, Melbourne
We forge multiplayer games and the infrastructure that runs them.
ArenaForgeAtlas is a Fitzroy-based studio building competitive game clients, low-latency netcode, and the DevOps backbone behind them — from first prototype to launch-day scale.
38
Games shipped
42ms
Avg. match latency
180k
Peak concurrent players served
Built for teams that ship under pressure
The numbers our clients keep coming back for.
99.98%
Server uptime across live titles
42ms
Median tick-to-client latency
12 yrs
Shipping games from Melbourne
24/7
On-call live-ops coverage
How we work
From loose idea to a game people queue up to play
A four-stage build loop we've run across arena shooters, auto-battlers, and racing sims. Fixed milestones, weekly playable builds.
- 1
Discovery & vertical slice
Weeks 1–3
We map the core loop, define your netcode budget, and hand back a playable vertical slice you can test with real players before a cent goes into full production.
- 2
Systems & netcode build
Weeks 4–12
Client, server-authoritative simulation, and matchmaking are built in parallel. You get a fresh build every Friday with patch notes and a live metrics dashboard.
- 3
Live infrastructure & scale test
Weeks 13–18
We provision autoscaling game servers across Sydney and Melbourne regions, then run soak and load tests up to your target concurrency before anyone else sees it.
- 4
Launch & live-ops handover
Week 19+
Launch-day war room, then a documented handover — or an ongoing live-ops retainer where we run patches, seasons, and incident response for you.
What we build
Four disciplines, one studio
Pick a track or combine them — every engagement is scoped and priced up front in AUD.
Game development
Unreal & Unity buildsfrom A$48,000 / project
Full game-client development in Unreal Engine 5 or Unity. Gameplay systems, animation pipelines, UI, and console/PC/mobile ports handled by a dedicated pod of four engineers and a technical artist.
- Core loop & combat design
- Cross-platform builds (PC, console, mobile)
- Performance profiling to a locked 60fps
The studio
The people forging your build
A small senior team in Fitzroy — no juniors billed as seniors, no offshore surprises.
Marcus L.
Netcode & Backend Lead
Built the rollback stack behind a top-10 Steam fighting game. Obsessive about the 42ms.
Hana K.
Technical Art Director
Runs the render pipeline — from shader budgets to that satisfying hit-spark you can't stop looking at.
Declan W.
Live-Ops & DevOps Lead
Keeps fleets green at 3am. Has never lost a launch-day war room.
Player & partner reviews
Teams that shipped with us
A featured build diary and a few words from the studios we've worked alongside.
Build diary — Season 1 launch6:12
"ArenaForgeAtlas took our messy prototype and gave us a server-authoritative shooter that held 60k concurrent on launch night without a single rollback incident."
Founder, indie FPS — Mar 2025
"The Friday build cadence changed how we work. Every week we had something real to playtest, and the metrics dashboard meant no arguments about what was actually broken."
Game Director — Nov 2024
"Their DevOps pod runs our live game so we can focus on seasons. Uptime went from embarrassing to 99.98% in a quarter."
Studio Head — Jul 2024
Start a build
Tell us about your game
Drop by the studio on Rose Street or send the details below. We reply to every serious enquiry within one business day.
- Phone
- +61 3 9419 7755
- [email protected]
- Studio
- 57 Rose Street, Fitzroy VIC 3065
- Studio hours
- Mon–Fri, 9:00am – 6:00pm AEST