Matchmaking
Frostline Arena — Ranked Ladder
Rebuilt a stalling queue into a Glicko-2 ladder that fills 5v5 lobbies in under 12 seconds at peak.
Game Infrastructure · Toronto, Canada
Game backends that never drop a frame.
AppPulseEngine builds sub-40ms matchmaking, authoritative servers, anti-cheat and live-ops tooling for competitive studios. Ship seasons, not incidents.
Studio hours: Mon–Fri, 9:00–18:00 EST · On-call live-ops 24/7
What we build
Infrastructure tuned for the scoreboard
Every engagement pairs you with a Toronto-based engineer who has shipped ranked ladders and launch-day traffic spikes. Fixed-scope sprints, transparent Canadian-dollar pricing.
6–10 week build · from CAD $28,000
Authoritative Game Servers
Deterministic, rollback-ready dedicated servers with region-aware fleet autoscaling across Toronto, Montréal and Vancouver edges. Tick rates from 30 to 128Hz.
- 128Hz simulation with lag compensation
- Agones + Kubernetes fleet orchestration
- Automatic scale-down between match peaks
4–8 week build · from CAD $19,500
Skill-Based Matchmaking
Glicko-2 rating pipelines, party-aware queues and sub-40ms geo routing that fills lobbies fast without sacrificing match quality or fairness.
- Party & role-aware queueing
- Latency-banded regional pools
- Live queue dashboards for your ops team
Retainer · from CAD $4,200 / month
Anti-Cheat & Integrity
Server-side telemetry, statistical outlier detection and kernel-lite client attestation, with a weekly integrity report reviewed by our Leslieville team.
- Behavioural anomaly detection
- Encrypted replay capture & review
- Weekly integrity + ban-wave reporting
Retainer · from CAD $3,600 / month
Live-Ops & Season Tooling
Feature-flagged content drops, battle-pass backends and observability dashboards so you can run a season without a war room every patch night.
- Zero-downtime content deployments
- Player economy & battle-pass services
- Grafana dashboards + PagerDuty on-call
Selected work
Shipped, scaled, and still online
A sample of the ladders, launches and backends we have delivered for Canadian and international studios. Filter by discipline.
Backend
Nightpaw Royale — Server Fleet
120-player authoritative servers with rollback netcode, autoscaled across three Canadian regions.
Live-Ops
Aurora Cup — Live Event Ops
Ran the backend for a 48-hour charity tournament streamed from Toronto with zero downtime.
Backend
Tidebreak — Integrity Overhaul
Cut confirmed cheating reports by 71% in one season with telemetry-driven ban waves.
By the numbers
Numbers our clients quote back to us
Measured across live titles we operate today. Sampled over the last four competitive seasons.
38ms
Median match latency
Across Canadian edge regions
99.98%
Live-ops uptime
Rolling 12-month window
14M+
Matches orchestrated
Since our 2019 launch
71%
Fewer cheat reports
First season post-integrity build
Client voices
Studios that trust us on patch night
We work as an extension of your engineering team — here is what a few of our partners have said.
How Frostline Arena cut queue times from 40s to under 12s — a 2-minute studio walkthrough.
“Our ranked queue used to buckle every Friday. AppPulseEngine rebuilt matchmaking and now lobbies fill before I finish my coffee. Launch weekend was the calmest we have ever had.”
“They stood up an authoritative server fleet across three regions in six weeks. Rollback netcode feels instant even for our players out west. Genuinely the most prepared partner we have hired.”
“The weekly integrity reports changed how we run seasons. Cheating reports dropped by two-thirds and our community noticed within a month. Worth every Canadian dollar.”
Good to know
Questions studios ask first
If your question is not here, reach the Leslieville team directly and we will answer within one business day.
We work day-to-day with Unreal Engine, Unity and custom C++ engines. On the backend we favour Go, Rust and TypeScript on Kubernetes with Agones for fleet management. If you already have infrastructure, we adapt to it rather than forcing a rewrite.
Either works. Most clients run on their own cloud accounts so they keep full ownership, and we deploy into them. If you prefer, we can operate a managed fleet on your behalf under the live-ops retainer, including 24/7 on-call coverage.
Discovery calls happen within a few business days. A typical build kicks off two to three weeks after we scope the work, and retainer clients can usually onboard the same week. Launch-critical timelines can be fast-tracked — just tell us the date.
Fixed-scope builds start at CAD $19,500 for matchmaking and CAD $28,000 for a server fleet. Live-ops and integrity retainers start at CAD $3,600 per month. Every quote is itemised, so you always know what each sprint delivers before you commit.
Yes. Retainer clients get 24/7 on-call coverage with PagerDuty escalation to our engineers. For a one-off launch, we offer a standalone launch-support package with a dedicated engineer on the bridge for the whole window.
Get in touch
Tell us about your title
Send a few details about your game and timeline. A Toronto engineer — not a sales bot — replies within one business day.
- Phone
- +1 (416) 368-0147
- [email protected]
- Studio
- 58 Windsor Drive, Leslieville, Toronto, ON M4L 1P5
- Hours
- Mon–Fri, 9:00–18:00 EST · On-call 24/7
Leslieville, Toronto — our neighbourhood