Orrin Velthaus
Lead Systems Architect
Orrin spent six years on backend infrastructure for session-based shooters before joining Betagame. He runs groups focused on netcode fundamentals and server-authoritative design patterns.
About Betagame
Group work on
Group work on
multiplayer games
Betagame brings together developers, designers, and systems thinkers to build multiplayer experiences worth playing. We work in structured groups — sharing problems, testing ideas, and moving forward together rather than in isolation.
How we got here
A studio built around shared craft
Multiplayer game development is genuinely hard. Latency, state synchronization, player behavior at scale — these are problems that rarely have clean solutions, and working through them alone tends to produce brittle results. Betagame started from a simple observation: developers make better decisions when they can talk through problems with people who understand the same constraints.
Our approach centers on structured group sessions where participants work on real projects — not toy examples. Whether the focus is GTA VI-style open-world networking, session-based matchmaking, or cooperative progression systems, the work stays grounded in what ships, not what sounds good in theory.
Timeline
Early 2025
Betagame founded in Yakima,
WA
First cohort: 8 developers, 3
disciplines
Mid 2025
Virtual group format
established
Focus areas defined:
networking, systems design, live ops
Now
Ongoing groups across
multiplayer disciplines
Open to developers at all
experience levels
Group size
Sessions kept small — 6 to 12 participants — so every voice gets heard and no one gets lost in the crowd.
Format
Fully virtual. Participants connect from their own environments while working toward shared technical goals.
Focus
Grand Theft Auto VI and similar large-scale multiplayer architectures inform many of our case studies and design challenges.
The people
Facilitators who actually ship
Everyone who leads a group at Betagame has worked on shipped multiplayer titles. That matters because the questions participants bring — about GTA VI-scale persistence, about server authority vs. client prediction, about what breaks under real player load — require answers from people who have faced those exact situations.
Saoirse Pflüger
Live Operations Lead
Saoirse's background is in live game management for open-world titles — the kind of persistent, large-scale environments that Grand Theft Auto VI represents. She facilitates groups on player economy and event systems.
Teodas Rimkevičius
Multiplayer Design Specialist
Teodas focuses on cooperative and competitive game design mechanics. His groups work through the social and systemic side of multiplayer — matchmaking fairness, progression pacing, and player retention without dark patterns.
Get in touch with the team
5633 Summitview Ave, Yakima, WA 98908 · support@betagame.info · +1 607 334 9599