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Game Development Sprints
Six-week build cycles with a dedicated Unity or Godot pod, weekly playable builds and a shipping checklist for Steam and mobile stores.
From A$8,500 · 6-week cycle
IT & Game Studio · Prahran, Melbourne
HYPEREMBER
Ember Arena — 24 competition seats
Where Melbourne teams build games and win LAN nights.
A neon-lit studio on Greville Street shipping game builds, running esports tournaments and keeping your rigs online. Walk-in bookings, real controllers, faster ping.
+61 3 9826 2574 · 158 Greville Street, Prahran VIC 3181
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What we run
Four ways we level up your game
From a six-week build sprint to a Friday-night bracket, every service is booked, scoped and delivered from our Prahran floor.
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Esports Arena Hire
24 competition seats, 240Hz displays and a shoutcaster booth. Book by the hour for scrims, or the full night for a bracket with our tournament admins.
A$45/hour · A$540 full night
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Managed IT & Cloud Ops
We patch, monitor and back up your studio fleet, run game servers on autoscaling cloud, and answer tickets before your standup finishes.
From A$1,200/month
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LAN & Network Builds
Low-latency cabling, VLANs and switch config for offices, cafes and pop-up events across the inner south-east — spec'd, racked and stress-tested.
From A$2,400 per build
The crew
Builders, admins and shoutcasters
The people you'll meet on the floor at 158 Greville Street.
Priya Nadella
Lead Game Engineer
Ships Unity gameplay systems and mentors the build pods. Ten years across mobile and console titles.
Marcus True
Arena & Esports Manager
Runs the bracket nights, tunes every rig and keeps median ping under 12ms during finals.
Elena Fischer
Cloud & IT Operations
Owns the managed fleet, autoscaling game servers and the ticket queue for studio clients.
Dylan O'Rourke
Network Architect
Designs the LAN builds — cabling, VLANs and switch config that survive a 200-seat event.
Sana Kapoor
Producer & Client Lead
Scopes sprints, keeps builds on schedule and translates player feedback into the backlog.
Player reviews
What Melbourne says after the match
“We booked the Ember Arena for our uni league finals — 24 seats, zero lag and a shoutcaster who actually knew the game. Best A$540 the club has ever spent.”
“HyperEmberGrid took our prototype through a six-week sprint and we launched on Steam early access on time. Weekly playable builds kept the whole team honest.”
“Our studio fleet used to crash every second deadline. Since they took over managed IT, tickets are answered before lunch and the game servers just stay up.”
“They wired our new office LAN in a weekend — cabling, VLANs, the lot. First LAN party had 40 players and not a single dropped connection.”
Good to know
Questions before you book
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Walk-ins are welcome whenever seats are free, but weekends and evenings fill fast. We recommend booking your seat or squad online so we can reserve rigs and set up your game profiles before you arrive.
The arena is open Monday to Thursday 12pm–10pm, Friday and Saturday 10am–midnight, and Sunday 12pm–8pm. Studio and IT teams work standard business hours, with on-call cover for managed clients outside those times.
Both. Around half our sprint work is client projects delivered under NDA, and the rest are our own titles. You keep full ownership of your IP and source, and we hand over a documented build at the end of every cycle.
Patching, monitoring and daily backups for your fleet, autoscaling cloud game servers, and a shared ticket queue with next-business-hour response. Plans start at A$1,200/month and scale with your seat count.
Yes. A full arena night is A$540 and includes 24 seats, tournament admins, the shoutcaster booth and bracket setup. We handle check-in, scheduling and the stream overlay so your organisers can just enjoy the games.
We're at 158 Greville Street, Prahran VIC 3181, a short walk from Prahran Station and the Chapel Street trams. Metered street parking is available on Greville Street and the surrounding blocks.
Get in touch
Book a seat, a sprint, or a support plan
Tell us what you're building or playing and we'll come back within one business day. We're on the floor at Greville Street six days a week.
- Call the desk
- +61 3 9826 2574
- Email us
- [email protected]
- Visit the studio
- 158 Greville Street, Prahran VIC 3181
- Arena hours
- Mon–Thu 12–10 · Fri–Sat 10–late · Sun 12–8