We engineer scalable
multiplayer infrastructure.
RifGames is a specialized online game server engineering team. We build, modernize, and operate MMORPG server cores, private servers, anti-cheat, and launchers — and we stay to keep them online.
$ rif deploy --strategy blue-green --region eu-west
✓ health checks passed · 0 dropped connections
tick 43ms · p99 61ms · uptime 99.98%
Trusted by server owners and operators worldwide
Deep expertise across the games server owners run
From classic MMORPG emulators to modern multiplayer platforms — we know these cores, protocols, and communities inside out.
Season cores, custom rates & anti-hack
Full server cores & live-ops tooling
Server files, sources & security hardening
L2J/L2OFF backends & geodata
Source builds & world balancing
EP cores & channel infrastructure
vSRO/JSRO cores & bot protection
GTA multiplayer servers & resources
Networks, proxies & plugin backends
Bespoke cores & multiplayer backends
Every layer of your online game server
From the authoritative core to the launcher and control panel — we engineer, secure, and operate the full multiplayer stack.
Servers we rebuilt, secured, and scaled
A look at how we've rebuilt cores, crushed cheating, and kept live servers online for operators around the world.
A process built for high-stakes launches
Every engagement follows the same disciplined path — so nothing about launch day is a surprise.
Discovery & Architecture
We map your vision, player scale, and constraints into a concrete technical blueprint — the systems, the topology, and the risks, before a line of code.
Design & Prototyping
Rapid vertical slices prove the hard parts early — netcode, combat feel, and load behavior — so decisions are grounded in something playable.
Engineering
Tight sprints with continuous delivery. You see progress weekly in a live staging environment, with observability from day one.
Load & Security Testing
We simulate peak concurrency, red-team the anti-cheat, and pen-test the surface area — because launch day is not the time to find out.
Launch
Blue-green rollouts, real-time monitoring, and a war-room on standby. We ship with rollback plans and a calm room.
Operate & Evolve
Post-launch, we stay: SLA-backed operations, live-ops content, and a roadmap that keeps your world growing.
Operators trust us with their servers
“Our files just couldn't take a real crowd. Every night around prime time the core would freeze and my Discord would explode with people asking why they got dc'd. These guys dug through it, rewrote the parts that actually mattered, and now we sit around 18k online without me watching the CPU graph like a hawk.”
“Silkroad and bots, right? We tried every public tool out there and the gold farmers always crawled back in a week. Their anti-cheat actually broke the bot economy — item prices stopped crashing and real players finally stuck around instead of quitting.”
“Every patch used to mean reuploading half the client and watching people ragequit the download. The launcher they built does the diff in a few seconds and the CP just works — my staff stopped doing everything by hand at 2am. Honestly wish we'd done it two seasons ago.”
“I inherited an L2J fork nobody on the team really understood. Every time we touched sieges something else broke. They took the time to actually document it and clean it up, and now my devs can add stuff without praying it doesn't take the server down.”
“During big RP scenes our server ms went all over the place and chat was just complaints. They went through our resources one by one, found the ones eating the main thread, and now the same player count runs smooth. Didn't even have to rent a bigger box.”
“We're a tiny team and keeping the network up 24/7 was burning us out. They took over the ops side — TPS holds even on event nights and I'm not getting woken up by alerts anymore. It's been about two years and we haven't dropped during peak once.”
Answers before you ask
The questions server owners ask us most. Can't find yours? Reach out anytime.
Have a server worth engineering?
Tell us where you are — a new server, a struggling live game, or a legacy core that needs rescuing. We'll tell you exactly how we'd approach it.