Unity Game Development

Experienced Unity engineering for games and interactive projects. Whether you’re starting with a concept, an existing prototype or a wider creative team, we can take responsibility for the technical work needed to move the project forward.

Build with an Engineering-Led Unity Team

Ocean View Games is an engineering-led Unity studio. Some clients come to us with a concept and need a team to turn it into a working product. Others already have design, art, content or internal stakeholders in place and need experienced engineers to own the technical delivery. We shape the engagement around what already exists. That might mean taking a project from prototype through launch, owning the Unity development alongside your creative team, or bringing in trusted specialists when the scope requires additional capacity or disciplines.

What We Can Take Responsibility For

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Discovery & Technical Planning

Turn the idea into a buildable plan. We help define scope, technical risks, architecture, platforms and practical development milestones before committing heavily to production.

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Prototypes & Vertical Slices

Validate core mechanics and technical assumptions early with playable prototypes that answer important questions before full production begins.

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Gameplay & Systems Engineering

Build the systems that make the project work: gameplay, UI integration, progression, content systems, persistence, tools and other project-specific engineering.

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Technical Architecture

Create maintainable foundations for projects expected to grow, evolve or support substantial amounts of content over time.

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Performance, Testing & Polish

Profile real builds, solve performance problems and work through the technical issues needed to make the project stable and ready for its target hardware.

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Launch & Ongoing Support

Support deployment, launch preparation, updates and continued engineering after the initial release where the project requires it.

A Senior Core, Scaled Around the Project

We keep our permanent team small and technically focused. David and Adam stay close to the engineering work and retain responsibility for the technical direction of the project. When an engagement needs more capacity or specialist disciplines, we can expand the delivery team through trusted contractors and specialists we’ve already worked with on real projects. Depending on the project, that can include additional engineering, backend, art, UI/UX, audio and QA support. Meet the team.

Who We Work With

We work with game companies, publishers, funded teams, educational organisations and other groups building interactive products. Some clients need us to own most of the technical development. Others already have designers, artists, writers or internal teams and need us to provide the engineering foundation around them. The common factor isn’t a particular genre or type of organisation. It’s a project that benefits from experienced technical ownership.

Selected Game Development Projects

Recent projects built by the OVG team

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Experienced Unity Engineering

Our core team has worked professionally in game development since 2014 and 2012 respectively, with experience spanning commercial games, educational projects, mobile development and technically demanding legacy work. David previously worked at Jagex on RuneScape Mobile, while both David and Adam previously worked at fish in a bottle before building Ocean View Games. David holds Unity Certified Expert Programmer credentials.

Why Work With Us?

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Engineering-Led

Experienced engineers stay involved in the technical decisions instead of important details being passed through layers of account management.

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Senior Core, Flexible Team

The core team stays small and technically focused, while trusted specialists can be brought in when the project needs additional skills or capacity.

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Built Around the Project

We don’t force every client through the same production model. The team, architecture and delivery approach are shaped around the project’s actual requirements.

Our Technology Stack

Unity

Blender

GitHub

Jira

Already Have a Project?

Not everything needs to start from scratch. We regularly work with existing teams and codebases.

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Need More Engineering Capacity?

Bring experienced Unity engineers into your existing team.

Explore Co-Development →

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Project in Trouble?

Get an experienced technical view of the existing codebase and a practical route forward.

Explore Technical Audits & Project Rescue →

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Moving to Another Platform?

Plan and deliver a port around the technical realities of the project and its target platform.

Explore Game Porting →

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Performance Problems?

Find out what is actually limiting the game and prioritise the fixes that matter.

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How a Project Works

Every project is different, but the shape of an engagement is usually the same.

1. Understand the Project

We start with the goals, audience, constraints, existing work and technical requirements. The aim is to understand what actually needs to be built before committing to a delivery plan.

2. Prove the Foundations

Where useful, we prototype risky mechanics or technical assumptions early and establish the architecture the rest of the project will depend on.

3. Build & Review

Development is broken into practical milestones with regular builds and feedback. You can see the project taking shape rather than waiting until the end to find out whether expectations matched.

4. Deliver & Support

We prepare the project for its target platforms, resolve launch issues and can continue supporting development after release where ongoing engineering is useful.

Plan Your Project

Free interactive tools to help scope your project.

Get a cost estimateGet an instant ballpark figure based on your game's scope and complexity.Try it free →Estimate your timelineSee how long your project will take based on genre, platforms, and team size.Try it free →Build your project briefCapture your concept, platforms, and requirements in a structured brief.Try it free →Compare game enginesSee how Unity, Unreal, Godot, and others compare for your project.Try it free →

Frequently Asked Questions

We primarily build games and interactive products using Unity. Our work spans commercial games, educational projects, mobile and PC development, browser-based experiences and technically demanding interactive applications.

If you’re unsure whether your project fits, send us a brief and we’ll tell you directly.

No. We work with game companies, publishers, educational organisations and other teams building interactive products.

The important question is whether the project benefits from the kind of Unity engineering and technical ownership we provide.

Yes, within the right scope.

We have a small senior core team and can expand delivery through trusted contractors and specialists we’ve already worked with on real projects. We’re transparent about capacity and will tell you if a project’s team requirements would be better suited to a substantially larger studio.

Yes. Some engagements involve us owning most of the Unity development, while others involve working alongside an existing engineering, design or creative team.

For dedicated team reinforcement, see our Co-Development service.

Yes. We regularly work with existing codebases.

If the project’s condition or scope is unclear, we may recommend starting with a Technical Audit or Project Rescue engagement before committing to a larger body of work.

It depends on scope, platforms, content requirements and how much of the wider production we need to provide.

Once we understand the project, we can provide a structured estimate or proposal. For an early indication, use our Game Development Cost Estimator.

Unity is a mature cross-platform engine with a strong ecosystem and is particularly well suited to the kinds of mobile, PC, educational and interactive projects we work on.

Deep specialisation means we can spend less time learning the engine and more time solving the project’s actual engineering problems. Our engine comparison tool covers how Unity stacks up against the alternatives.

David Edgecombe holds Unity Certified Expert Programmer credentials. Certification is one piece of evidence alongside the team’s shipped projects and professional experience.

Case Studies

Bookwood

Designing a Content Architecture That Can Grow With the Platform

How we designed Bookwood's content architecture on Unity Addressables and Unity Cloud Content Delivery, separating a growing story library from the application build.

Interactive Fiction
Content Architecture
PC & Mobile
Unity 6

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Bookwood

Turning Creative Requirements Into Maintainable Game Systems

How Ocean View Games worked alongside GamerCat Studio's developer to design Bookwood's core Unity architecture and interactive story systems around a content-heavy production.