Ember Drift
A couch-and-online racing title in Unreal 5 — 60fps on Switch, cross-play matchmaking we still run.
Game & IT studio · Surry Hills, Sydney
We build the games and the systems that keep them running.
From our workshop on Albion Street, DreamEmberScript.ink ships Unity and Unreal titles, wires up the cloud infrastructure behind them, and hardens it against attack — one accountable team from prototype to launch day.
Studio hours: Mon–Fri, 9am–6pm AEST+61 2 9263 4187
What we do
Three tightly-run practices, one studio
We keep game craft, infrastructure, and security under the same roof so nothing gets lost in a handoff. Every engagement starts with a fixed-scope discovery sprint before we quote the build.
Build
Unity & Unreal Game Development
Full production for PC, console, and mobile — gameplay systems, multiplayer netcode, tools pipelines, and console certification prep. We work in fortnightly milestones with a playable build at the end of every one.
- Discovery sprint from A$6,500 (2 weeks, fully credited to the build)
- Production milestones from A$18,000 each
- Console cert & store submission included
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Run
Managed Cloud & IT Infrastructure
The live-ops backbone behind a shipped title: dedicated game servers, matchmaking, CI/CD, monitoring, and 24/7 on-call. We manage your AWS or GCP footprint and keep launch-day traffic from taking you down.
- Managed infrastructure from A$1,450 / month
- Autoscaling game servers & matchmaking
- 24/7 on-call incident response
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Protect
Cybersecurity & Penetration Testing
Independent security work for studios and IT teams — anti-cheat review, penetration testing, source-code audits, and IRAP-aligned hardening. You get a prioritised report and a fix-it session with the engineer who ran the test.
- Penetration test engagements from A$4,200
- Anti-cheat & live-service threat modelling
- Remediation retest included within 30 days
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Selected work
Recent builds off the Albion Street bench
A slice of what we have shipped for Australian studios, publishers, and internal IT teams over the last two years. Scroll across to see more.
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Lantern Hollow
Hand-painted Unity adventure for a Melbourne indie; we built the save system and Steam Deck verification.
Redgum Live-Ops
Autoscaling game backend on AWS that held 40,000 concurrent players through a launch weekend.
Sentinel Audit
Penetration test and anti-cheat overhaul for a competitive shooter ahead of its ranked season.
By the numbers
A small studio with a long track record
We stay deliberately lean so the people who scope your project are the ones who build it. Here is where that has landed us.
47
Titles & systems shipped
9 yrs
Building in Surry Hills
99.95%
Live-ops uptime across managed fleets
31
Australian studios & IT teams served
Client words
What teams say after launch
Feedback from the studio leads and IT managers we have worked alongside.
They took Ember Drift from a messy prototype to a certified Switch release in eight months, and they still run our matchmaking. No drama, just weekly playable builds.
Priya R.
Executive Producer · Newtown, Sydney
March 2025
Our launch weekend spiked to 40k concurrent players and the backend never blinked. The on-call engineer messaged me before I even noticed the traffic.
Daniel K.
Head of Live Ops · Fitzroy, Melbourne
November 2024
The penetration test report was blunt and genuinely useful — ranked by risk, with a fix-it call included. We closed every critical before ranked season opened.
Amara T.
Technical Director · West End, Brisbane
August 2024
We are a two-person indie and they treated us like it mattered. The Steam Deck verification and save system they built just worked out of the box.
Josh & Lena M.
Co-founders, Lantern Hollow · Surry Hills, Sydney
January 2025
They migrated our whole studio IT to a managed setup without a single lost workday. Onboarding a new artist is now a ten-minute job.
Marcus D.
Studio Operations Manager · Adelaide CBD
June 2024
Straight-talking, fixed the scope up front, and hit every milestone. The discovery sprint alone saved us from building the wrong thing.
Hannah W.
Product Lead · North Sydney
April 2025
Good to know
Questions we get asked a lot
If your question is not here, call the studio or send a note and we will get back within one business day.
No. Roughly half our work is game development, and the rest is managed infrastructure and cybersecurity for teams whose products are not games at all. The same engineers who keep game backends alive are comfortable running a general SaaS or corporate IT environment.
Almost everything begins with a two-week discovery sprint from A$6,500. We map the scope, risks, and architecture, then hand you a fixed quote for the build. If you go ahead, the discovery fee is credited against the first milestone, so you are never paying twice.
You do — completely. Source lives in your repositories, cloud accounts stay in your name, and we hand over full documentation at the end of every engagement. We are happy to keep running things for you, but you are never locked in.
Yes. We are set up for PlayStation, Xbox, and Nintendo Switch submissions and handle certification prep, TRC/XR compliance, and store setup as part of a production engagement. We will flag platform requirements during discovery so there are no late surprises.
The studio is at 65 Albion Street in Surry Hills, a few minutes from Central Station, open Monday to Friday 9am–6pm AEST. Managed-infrastructure clients also get 24/7 on-call cover for production incidents outside those hours.
Get in touch
Tell us what you are building
Send a few lines about your project and we will reply within one business day — or drop by the Surry Hills studio if you would rather talk it through in person.
- Phone
- +61 2 9263 4187
- Studio
- 65 Albion Street, Surry Hills NSW 2010
- [email protected]
- Hours
- Monday–Friday, 9am–6pm AEST