XGameDev adds senior Unity engineering capacity to your existing team on a contract basis: gameplay systems, WebGL builds, mobile optimisation, backend integration, build automation, and project recovery. The engagement can be scoped around a sprint, a milestone, or ongoing support.
Add senior Unity development support for a sprint, milestone, or ongoing retainer.
Bring in help for performance, WebGL, mobile builds, backend integration, native plugins, or release blockers.
Get experienced developers into a Unity project that is unstable, delayed, or difficult to maintain.
A clearly defined feature, system, or milestone with a fixed cost and timeline.
Ongoing capacity billed by the hour or day for exploratory or agile work.
Extra hands for a crunch period, a deadline, or a specific technical blocker.
XGameDev is led by Jacques and Melanie Leemans. Clients work directly with senior practitioners, which matters when the work involves codebase decisions, project risk, technical debt, and release constraints.
We can work inside your existing tools and repositories, follow your coding conventions, and take responsibility for a defined part of the project. Engagements can be fixed-scope, time and materials, or ongoing support depending on the work.
If you're looking for a defined-scope co-development partnership rather than ongoing contract capacity, see Unity Game Co-Development.
This engagement is for ongoing engineering time inside your workflow. Tell us the skills needed, expected duration, weekly capacity, working-hour overlap and who will prioritise the backlog. We confirm availability during the enquiry rather than advertising a fixed start date.
Before onboarding, agree repository permissions, review conventions, a working build, communication cadence and how time and progress will be reported. Code ownership, access to third-party assets and confidentiality belong in the engagement agreement. If you need a fixed result with milestone acceptance, use co-development instead.
A repository review and reproducible build come first. We need to understand the current Unity version, package dependencies and release blockers before estimating the time required. See Old as Dirt for an example of work across an existing Unity application and its supporting systems.
XGameDev is run by Jacques and Melanie Leemans, both Unity engineers. Jacques is a Certified Unity Expert Programmer with more than 13 years of hands-on Unity and C# experience; Melanie is a Unity Generalist and 3D artist focused on level design and world-building. When you hire XGameDev, you work directly with the people responsible for the code, production decisions, and delivery.
I couldn't have had a better experience on this project. Jacques was incredibly responsive, explained things really well and worked very quickly. Not only will I be hiring him again but I'm actively going to be selling work just to give to him.
Great games developer! Even better was his understanding of the project, going above and beyond of the spec to ensure I was happy with the finished game. All that with great communication.
Jacques is great. Very knowledgeable and professional. Will work with again.
For most contract engagements we can scope the work and begin within one to two weeks of an initial call, depending on current capacity.
Yes. We work inside your repositories, project management tools (Jira, Trello, etc.), and existing coding conventions rather than asking you to adapt to ours.
There's no fixed minimum. Short, clearly scoped engagements and open-ended retainers are both common; we'll recommend a structure once we understand the work.
Either. Fixed-cost suits clearly scoped deliverables; time & materials suits exploratory or ongoing work. We agree the structure upfront.
Tell us what the team needs, the current project stage, and the target platforms.
