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.
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.
Cost & Team Sizing
Budget and staffing numbers for a new build, a port or an embedded team.
Game Development Cost Estimator
A budget range from your platform, genre, team size and feature list.
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.
Planning & Strategy
Turn an early idea into a shaped project: the engine, the revenue model, the brief and the schedule.
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.
Game Development Timeline Estimator
A phase-by-phase schedule for your game type, team and current stage.
Checklists & Checkers
Assess what you already have: a codebase, a platform target, a store submission or a gallery build.
Platform Readiness Checklist
Every store submission requirement, from developer accounts to art assets.
Unity Migration Checker
Breaking changes, deprecated APIs and effort for a move to Unity 6.
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.
Museum Interactive Commissioning Checklist
Plan a gallery interactive, record decisions and print an acceptance worksheet.
How to Commission an Educational Game
Stakeholders, curriculum input, pilot testing and acceptance criteria in one checklist.
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
Memory budgets, frame-time profiling, adaptive quality scaling and battery-aware scheduling for Unity mobile games.
Educational Gamification Systems for Unity
Learning outcome tracking and adaptive difficulty for curriculum-aligned Unity games, with editor tooling for inspecting objectives and exporting reports, plus a runnable classroom-simulation sample.
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.
More From Ocean View Games
Where to go next if you would rather see how we work than read about it.
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