TLM Partners

TLM Partners is an American video game co-development and engineering studio founded in 2017. It works with publishers and development teams on console, PC and mobile games, with a particular focus on the technical systems behind large-scale productions. Following its acquisition by Endava in August 2023, its public-facing services and marketing became integrated into Endava Games.

The studio’s engineering expertise spans cross-play architecture, custom physics, engine-level tools, multiplayer networking and technical animation. Its work addresses interconnected production challenges, from gameplay systems and platform compatibility to rendering performance and the infrastructure supporting online play. These capabilities support both collaborative development within an existing production team and broader development engagements.

Development and production

TLM’s reported offering covers prototyping, gameplay programming, full-cycle development, porting and remastering. Supported platforms include PlayStation, Xbox, Nintendo Switch, PC, mobile and handheld devices. Its development work uses Unreal Engine, Unity, Frostbite and proprietary engines, adapting tools and workflows to the requirements of individual projects.

Alongside engineering, its services encompass character and environment modeling, animation, shaders, technical art and visual effects. Tool development includes bespoke SDKs, procedural generation pipelines, performance profiling and interface engineering. Live operations, back-end cloud support, infrastructure management and functional and compliance quality assurance extend that work into release and ongoing operation.

Collaborative game development

Reported co-development credits include Call of Duty: Black Ops, Gotham Knights, Immortals of Aveum, Marvel’s Midnight Suns, Back 4 Blood and Spellbreak. These engagements reflect the studio’s role as an external development partner working alongside publishers and other game studios. Its portfolio also includes publishing and co-development work on the cooperative puzzle game Zorya: The Celestial Sisters.

TLM developed around a distributed workforce spanning several regions, combining game engineering with art, production and publishing capabilities. Its integration into Endava’s gaming practice extended that operating context while retaining TLM Partners, Inc. as an operating subsidiary. The supplied research describes a continuing games business rather than a studio closure.