The Studio

Anantarupa Studio is Indonesia’s leading game development studios, founded in 2011 in Jakarta. Initially proving ccB2B services for games, it expended its portfolio through AR, VR and ultimately its own games.

2020 saw the soft-launch of Lokapala, the studio’s first MOBA in its home market of Indonesia. 

The Challenge

Unlike PCs or consoles, mobiles are inherently designed to be wireless to improve immersion – be they on WiFi or their mobile network. As a result, most players of Lokapala will be using hardware that naturally introduces significant latency—something developers can't fix within the game itself.

That’s where Edgegap’s regionless game server hosting and orchestration comes in.

The Solution

Edgegap deploys game servers on locations that are physically close to the players, allowing Lokapala players to play with each other in as close to real time as possible, usually with under 50ms of latency.

It also enables Anantarupa to secure one universal price regardless of location, whereas traditionally it would have to manage multiple prices that have been much higher than very specific major metropolitan areas .

Beyond compute for game servers, Edgegap also provides a complete set of cost-effective server infrastructures that power the Lokapala backend—Kubernetes cluster, database server, object storage, and content delivery network—with full support from architecture planning to resource deployments. This allows Anantarupa to make the server-side software that can deliver the best experience for their users.

Additionally, Edgegap’s platform and its managed infrastructure solution helped Anantarupa across specific areas:

• Easy Integration: In Anantarupa’s case, integration with Edgegap’s platform did not even require adding any special libraries or plugins. The Lokapala backend and game server can simply send requests to the Edgegap server via REST API, and Edgegap’s software will do all the heavy lifting. The integration was completed in a matter of days.

• Worry-Free Scaling: Edgegap scales up to 40 deployments per second for 60 minutes and provides just-in-time, on-demand game server deployment. This means Anantarupa can run marketing campaigns anytime without worrying about having enough server capacity to accommodate a sudden influx of new players.

• Regionless Hosting: Edgegap caches game servers in all 615+ locations across the globe and then makes them available to the game's player base on demand. This allowed Anantarupa to publish the game worldwide once it was ready to come out of its soft-launch. Reaching mobile players worldwide, instantly.

• Usage-Based Pricing: It’s not always easy to predict the size of a game’s player base ahead of release, or even the normal fluctuations of daily play. Reserve too little computing power and companies risk downtime; reserve too much and companies can end up paying for unused resources. With Edgegap’s on-demand game server deployment, Anantarupa only pays for real usage.

• 24/7 Support: The infrastructure architecture of each game is different, and the Edgegap development team was a constant help throughout the integration process. Even after Lokapala is live, technical support from Edgegap is always just a Discord message away.

• Resiliency: Thanks to Edgegap's automated multi-cloud management, players of Lokapala have had a consistent experience free from server disruptions.

Conclusion

Edgegap plays a pivotal rule for Anantarupa to launch Lokapala regionally, South-East Asia’s first-ever Esports title, with world-class performance and top-notch reliability without the complexity of traditional server infrastructure. From fast integration and regionless hosting to flexible pricing and real-time support, Edgegap’s platform empowered the team to focus on delivering an exceptional Esports experience to players worldwide.