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David Edgecombe
London, UK
2020
Unity Game Development, Co-Development, Porting & Modernisation, Technical Engineering
Named by Digital Reference as one of the leading game design consulting firms in the United Kingdom, alongside Studio Pepwuper, GAMIFICATION+ LTD, and Dreaming Methods.
2025Director David Edgecombe was interviewed by Beam on the future of gaming, his career path from Jagex to founding Ocean View Games, and the technical architecture behind Domi Online.
Beam (Medium) • 2024Navigo, an educational language-learning game developed during tenure at fish in a bottle, received an award from the Serious Games Society in the Digital Game Competition.
EU Horizon 2020 • fish in a bottleProfessionally certified by Unity Technologies, demonstrating advanced proficiency in Unity game development, architecture, and optimisation.
Unity Technologies“Initially hired David to review code for the game at a very early stage and was blown away by his abilities and after a round with the board we hired David as lead developer for the project. He brought with him other developers who also did great work and I can say with full confidence there would be no Domi Online without their expertise.”
“David worked with us on a 2 month project to build a mobile game. He has shown throughout his thorough knowledge of Unity and C#. Communication was clear. And he has made himself available when we needed him most. We continue to work with him on ad hoc basis.”
“David is very patient and has great communication. He is an appropriately skilled freelance Unity developer who understood our project goals from the beginning and worked with us diligently throughout our slow-burn design process. I am pleased that we chose David to develop version 2.0 of our Vocab Builder. Thanks David!”
“David did a great job with the project and was able to take a great amount of autonomy. There was very little need to go back and forth and ask him to change anything. His code is also very clean. He laid out his own roadmap plans and worked well with the rest of the team. Ultimately, he applied his experience and knowledge in the field very well. Very satisfied with the output of his work.”
Ocean View Games is a UK-based, engineering-led Unity studio that builds games and interactive projects, improves existing products, and provides experienced technical support to teams that need it.
Ocean View Games is an engineering-led Unity studio founded by David Edgecombe. Its core team brings experience spanning commercial games, educational titles and technically demanding modernisation work, including previous roles at Jagex and fish in a bottle. OVG works across new development, co-development, optimisation, porting, legacy modernisation and technical support, scaling delivery through a trusted contractor network when projects need additional capacity or specialist disciplines.
Ocean View Games was founded in 2020 by David Edgecombe as an engineering-led game development studio focused on practical, experienced technical delivery. David previously worked at Jagex on RuneScape Mobile, while both David and Adam Kaye previously developed educational and interactive projects at fish in a bottle.
Today, OVG works across new game development, co-development, technical architecture, performance optimisation, porting and legacy modernisation. Projects range from building scalable systems for Domi Online and developing the technical foundations of Bookwood to mobile development, educational games and modernising older software for current platforms.
OVG operates with a small senior core team that stays close to the work. When an engagement needs additional capacity or specialist disciplines, the studio can expand delivery through a trusted network of contractors it has already worked with on real projects, including engineering, backend, art, UI/UX, audio and QA expertise.
Building for Hundreds of Stories
Technical architecture for Bookwood, GamerCat Studio's interactive fiction platform. Unity Addressables and Cloud Content Delivery built to scale across iOS, Android and Steam.
Domi Online
Unity MMORPG scaled to 1,000+ concurrent players. FishNet server-authoritative architecture. Helped secure $3M seed funding.
The following projects were completed during our founder’s tenure at other studios. They are included to demonstrate the depth of experience our team brings to every engagement.
MMORPG to Mobile Port
Core developer on RuneScape Mobile at Jagex (2017-2019), porting the classic MMORPG to iOS and Android for 10+ million players.
Historical Educational Game
Educational game about the Great Fire of 1666, rebuilt from Flash to HTML5. Originally developed for the Museum of London.
OVG is an engineering-led Unity studio. We build games and interactive projects, help teams solve difficult technical problems, and modernise or improve existing products. Our work spans new development, co-development, optimisation, porting, technical architecture, educational games and ongoing engineering support.
Director David Edgecombe worked at Jagex from 2017 to 2019 on RuneScape Mobile, helping bring the long-running MMORPG to iOS and Android. That experience forms part of the engineering background OVG brings to current projects, alongside the team’s work across educational games, mobile development, technical architecture and legacy modernisation.
Yes. OVG works with game companies as well as educational organisations and teams building interactive experiences. The team’s previous work includes projects for Cambridge University Press, the Museum of London and EU-funded educational programmes, while our own clients include organisations such as The Language Conservancy and GamerCat Studio.
Yes. OVG has a small senior core team, but we can scale delivery through a trusted network of contractors and specialists we’ve already worked with on real projects. Depending on the engagement, we can bring in additional engineering, backend, art, UI/UX, audio and QA expertise while we retain technical leadership and accountability.
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London, United Kingdom
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