High Horse Entertainment

What High Horse Entertainment does

High Horse Entertainment is a Los Angeles-based, privately-held game technology company founded by Jay Mattis and Timothy Rapp, operating with a team of 1-10 employees. Its sole commercial product is SnapNet, a complete netcode solution for real-time multiplayer games that performs client-side prediction, rollback-based reconciliation, dynamic lag compensation, and physics synchronization without requiring strict determinism — a key departure from legacy solutions such as GGPO. SnapNet is built around a server-authoritative architecture with stateless cryptographic authentication and end-to-end DTLS encryption, and adds instant and full match replay capabilities, including server-side chunked streaming for near-live viewing.

The product is delivered as a standalone Unreal Engine plugin (no engine forks required) and as a Unity package distributed through the Unity Package Manager, with a custom engine integration path offered through direct engagement. SnapNet is configurable for multiple genres — shooters, fighting games, and sports games — with genre-appropriate prediction models (e.g., predicted rockets versus interpolated projectiles, full-state rollback resimulation for fighting games, and shared-object synchronization for sports).

The company operates an enterprise field-sales go-to-market, primarily through a contact form on snapnet.dev that funnels into demo requests and evaluation licenses, with commercial licensing as the apparent revenue mechanism. Pricing is not publicly disclosed and no named customers, partnerships, funding rounds, or revenue figures are available in the source data, making the company's commercial traction difficult to independently verify.

Name

High Horse Entertainment

Legal name

High Horse Entertainment

Website

https://highhorseentertainment.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2021

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

High Horse Entertainment is a small Los Angeles game technology company whose SnapNet product provides AAA netcode — prediction, rollback, lag compensation, and replays — for real-time multiplayer game studios on Unreal Engine and Unity.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Multiplayer Game Networking Software

NAICS

Software Publishers (513210)

SIC

Services-Prepackaged Software (7372)

akta.pro primary industry

Network & Connectivity Optimization for Cloud Gaming (QoS, traffic shaping, game-focused ISPs/VPNs) (MPAFAHAF)

Keywords

• Multiplayer game networking
• Netcode solutions
• Game engine plugins
• Lag compensation software
• Client-side prediction

Headquarters

HQ city

Los Angeles

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Operations, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Software Licensing: SnapNet is sold as a software solution for game developers. Revenue appears to be generated through licensing fees for evaluation and commercial use of the netcode solution.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels3 records

Core offering

SnapNet is a complete AAA netcode solution for real-time multiplayer games, providing client-side prediction, rollback-based reconciliation, dynamic lag compensation, secure server-authoritative architecture with DTLS encryption, and instant/full match replay capabilities. The product is delivered as a standalone Unreal Engine plugin, a Unity Package Manager (UPM) package, or via custom engine integration, and is licensed to game studios building shooters, fighting games, and sports titles.

Product overview

High Horse Entertainment offers a single unified product called SnapNet — a complete AAA netcode solution for real-time multiplayer games. The product is available as both an Unreal Engine plugin (no engine forks required) and a Unity package (via Unity Package Manager), with custom engine integration support available upon request. SnapNet handles the networking complexity (client-side prediction, rollback, lag compensation, physics synchronization, and replay systems) so developers can focus on gameplay.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• SnapNet: A complete netcode solution for real-time multiplayer games, handling client-side prediction, rollback, lag compensation, and instant/full match replays. Supports Unreal Engine and Unity.

Products and services

• SnapNet SnapNet is an AAA netcode solution for game development studios building real-time multiplayer titles. It provides client-side prediction, rollback-based reconciliation, dynamic lag compensation, stateless cryptographic authentication, end-to-end DTLS encryption, and a fully server-authoritative architecture, along with instant in-match replays, full match replays, and live server-side replay streaming. It is delivered as a standalone Unreal Engine plugin, a Unity Package Manager (UPM) package, or via custom engine integration, and is genre-tunable for shooters, fighting games, and sports games.

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration2 records

Feature7 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Direct peers

• Mirror Networking: Mirror is a popular open-source Unity networking library used as a free alternative to UNet. SnapNet competes for the same Unity-studio buyer with a more fully-featured, commercial offering that includes rollback and replays.
• Photon (Exit Games): Photon is the dominant third-party multiplayer networking middleware for Unity and Unreal, offering realtime, loadbalancing, voice, and chat. SnapNet competes head-to-head for the same netcode budget line within multiplayer game studios.
• GGPO (Pond3r / KeepItTech): GGPO is the canonical rollback netcode library used in fighting games. SnapNet explicitly positions its 'rollback without strict determinism' as an evolution beyond GGPO, making GGPO the closest architectural comparison.
• Fish-Net Networking: Fish-Net is a Unity and Godot networking solution with prediction, reconciliation, and server-authoritative architecture. It is a near-direct technical peer to SnapNet in the multiplayer-networking-for-indie-studios segment.

Emerging players

• Hathora: Hathora provides orchestrated dedicated game-server hosting with low-latency matchmaking. It is a complementary or competing layer to SnapNet for studios deciding whether to also outsource server orchestration alongside netcode.
• Edgegap: Edgegap offers automated multi-region game server orchestration and matchmaking. Like Hathora, it competes for the server-side portion of the multiplayer stack that SnapNet's DTLS-encrypted dedicated-server architecture is designed to plug into.
• AccelByte: AccelByte offers a modular game backend platform with multiplayer, matchmaking, and live ops tooling. It overlaps with SnapNet at the dedicated-server and multiplayer-infrastructure layer, though it is a broader platform play.

Broad incumbents

• PlayFab Multiplayer Servers (Microsoft): PlayFab's multiplayer servers and matchmaking are part of Microsoft's broader game-backend platform. While more focused on server orchestration than netcode, PlayFab competes for the same multiplayer-infrastructure budget at game studios.
• Unity Netcode for GameObjects: Unity's official multiplayer networking solution is bundled with the engine and represents the default choice for Unity studios. As a broad incumbent, it competes with SnapNet primarily on integration convenience and price.
• Epic Online Services (Epic Games): EOS provides free online services including sessions, lobbies, and replication for Unreal-based titles. As the engine owner's free offering, it sets a strong baseline against which any third-party netcode (including SnapNet) must justify its cost.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/HighHorseGames

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles2 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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