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Game Development Resources & Guides
Practical, experience-backed guides to help you plan your next game project. From budgeting to timelines, everything you need to make informed decisions.
Interactive Tools
Free calculators and checkers that turn a rough idea into a number, a plan or a brief in a couple of minutes. Nothing to sign up for.
Game Development Cost Estimator
A budget range from your platform, genre, team size and feature list.
Game Development Brief Builder
Answer guided questions, download a structured brief as a PDF. No sign-up.
Game Engine Comparison Tool
Unity, Unreal, Godot, GameMaker or custom, matched to your project.
Monetisation Strategy Picker
The revenue model that fits your genre, audience and platform.
Unity Migration Checker
Breaking changes, deprecated APIs and effort for a move to Unity 6.
Platform Readiness Checklist
Every store submission requirement, from developer accounts to art assets.
Game Development Timeline Estimator
A phase-by-phase schedule for your game type, team and current stage.
Porting Feasibility Checker
Whether your game can move platform, and what stands in the way.
Technical Debt Calculator
Score your codebase and get a prioritised action plan by category.
Porting Cost Estimator
Porting costs by engineering category for mobile, PC and console.
Team Size Calculator
How many developers you need, broken down by role, with monthly costs.
Co-Development Cost Estimator
What an embedded team or LiveOps retainer costs, ex and inc VAT.
Frequently Asked Questions
120+ answers on services, costs and timelines. Searchable and filterable.
Open Source
See all open source →Reference implementations pulled out of our own production work and published on GitHub.
Unity Mobile Performance Toolkit
Thermal monitoring, memory budgets, frame-time profiling and adaptive quality systems for Unity mobile games.
Educational Gamification Systems for Unity
Learning outcome tracking, adaptive difficulty and WebGL memory optimisation for curriculum-aligned Unity games, with editor tools for inspecting objectives and exporting reports.
Guides & Reference
Longer reads on what a game costs, how long it takes, and how to choose the studio that builds it.
How Much Does Game Development Cost?
What games cost by genre, platform, team size and complexity.
How Long Does Game Development Take?
Realistic schedules for every game type, and what moves them.
The Game Development Process
The four phases, from discovery and scoping through to live operations.
How to Choose a Game Development Studio
What to look for, what to ask, and the red flags to walk away from.
Game Development Glossary
Game development terminology in plain language, linked to our services.
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