Adelaide game studio · Est. 2016
We build games that keep players coming back.
MetaPulseLab.digital is a full-cycle studio on Wright Street, Adelaide — designing original titles, LiveOps and multiplayer backends for teams across Australia and beyond.
- 38+ shipped titles
- 4.7★ average store rating
- 11M+ players reached
What we do
From first prototype to live service
Four teams under one timber-beamed roof, working from greybox to global launch and every content season after.
Full-Cycle Game Development
End-to-end production in Unity and Unreal Engine 5 — design, art, engineering and QA. We take your concept from a two-week greybox prototype through to a polished cross-platform release on PC, console and mobile.
- Dedicated pod of 5–9 developers
- Weekly playable builds & sprint demos
- Console certification on Switch, PS5 & Xbox
From A$85,000 · 4–14 month builds
LiveOps & Content Seasons
Keep your game alive after launch. We plan and ship battle passes, seasonal events, balance patches and store rotations on a predictable cadence, with A/B tested economies that protect long-term retention.
- Live event calendar & content pipeline
- Economy tuning & remote config
- Player segmentation & cohort reporting
From A$6,500 / month · rolling retainer
Multiplayer & Backend Engineering
Authoritative servers, matchmaking, leaderboards and anti-cheat built to scale. We design netcode and cloud infrastructure that stays smooth from a 50-player playtest to a launch-day spike of hundreds of thousands.
- Rollback & authoritative netcode
- Auto-scaling dedicated game servers
- Cross-play accounts & save sync
From A$42,000 · fixed-scope sprints
Art, Audio & Player UX
A co-located art and audio team crafting characters, environments, adaptive music and UI. Every asset is production-ready and optimised for your target framerate, from stylised mobile to 4K console showcases.
- 2D/3D art & technical animation
- Adaptive soundtracks & SFX design
- Playtesting & accessibility passes
From A$18,000 · per content package
Selected work
Titles shipped from Wright Street
A snapshot of games and services we have built with partners across the Adelaide CBD and the wider Australian industry.
Hollow Tide
A hand-painted deep-sea metroidvania. Shipped on Steam and Switch with 92% positive reviews.
Ember Rally
Arcade drift racer with cross-play garages. 3.4M downloads across iOS and Android.
Signal Drift
Two years of seasonal content and battle passes for a co-op extraction shooter.
Kelp & Kin
Cosy reef-building sim with a live event calendar and 41-day median retention.
Quarry Kings
A physics-driven co-op builder with authoritative servers for up to 8 players.
Nova Ledger
Economy rebalance and store rotation program that lifted ARPDAU by 27%.
The numbers
Momentum we can measure
Results across our shipped titles and live-service partnerships since 2016.
38+
Titles shipped to store
11M+
Players reached worldwide
4.7★
Average store rating
96%
Partners who return for season two
In their words
Studios and publishers we build with
Play the reel, then hear from the partners behind our recent launches.
"MetaPulseLab took Hollow Tide from a rough prototype to a Switch launch in eleven months. Their weekly builds meant we were never guessing about progress."
Dane R.
Creative Director, North Terrace Games — Adelaide
Launched March 2025
"Our retention was flat until their LiveOps pod took over the season calendar. Day-30 retention climbed from 9% to 23% in two quarters."
Priya S.
Product Lead, Glenelg Interactive — Adelaide
Engagement 2024–2025
"The backend team rebuilt our matchmaking before a festival spike. We held 140,000 concurrent players on launch weekend without a single outage."
Marcus T.
CTO, Torrens Studio — Melbourne
Reviewed December 2024
Good to know
Questions we hear the most
Everything you need before booking a call at our Wright Street studio.
Absolutely. Around half of our projects are co-development where we join an existing team and codebase. We start with a two-week technical audit so we understand your engine, pipeline and constraints before writing a line of production code.
Our default engines are Unity and Unreal Engine 5, and we ship to PC (Steam, Epic), Switch, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series, iOS and Android. If you are on a bespoke or custom engine, our backend and LiveOps services still integrate cleanly.
Full productions typically start at A$85,000 for a focused vertical slice and scale with scope and platform count. LiveOps retainers begin at A$6,500 per month. After a discovery call we send a fixed-scope quote so there are no surprises mid-project.
We work from 74 Wright Street in the Adelaide CBD, open Monday to Friday, 9:00am to 5:30pm ACST. Partners are welcome to visit for playtests, and we run remote sprint demos for interstate and overseas teams.
Yes — launch is the start of the relationship. Most partners move onto a LiveOps retainer for seasonal content, balance patches and live events. Ninety-six percent of the studios we launch with come back for a second content season.
Start here
Tell us about your game
Send a few details about your project and we will get back to you within one business day to book a studio call.
Visit the studio
- Phone+61 8 8212 7563
- Email[email protected]
- Studio74 Wright Street, Adelaide SA 5000
- HoursMon–Fri · 9:00am–5:30pm ACST
Wright Street, Adelaide CBD
74 Wright Street, Adelaide SA 5000