Game Development

King Of The Sea

Discipline

Game Development

A naval strategy game with its IP, art and development all in-house.

The brief

What it is and how it was built.

King Of The Sea is Golden Sea Studios' main original game. The concept, story, art direction and development were all done in-house, and Golden Sea owns the IP.

Players build and command fleets in a persistent world, take territory, manage resources and fight real-time sea battles against other players. Fleet makeup, positioning and timing all change the outcome, which gives it more strategy than most mobile games.

The art is painterly and detailed, on purpose, at a time when most mobile games look flat. Every ship, environment and piece of UI was drawn or modelled by the team.

Photon Quantum keeps multiplayer battles deterministic so players never fall out of sync, and Firebase handles profiles, leaderboards and notifications. The game launched worldwide and keeps getting regular updates.

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