Port City: Ship Tycoon

Port City is a strategic tycoon mobile video game focusing on micromanagement. It was a remake of another game from the company's portfolio, TrainStation 2.

Downloads 5 mil.+

Google Play 4.5★

App Store 4.6★

Description

In this tycoon game, you can discover, build and collect hundreds of famous real-life ships from around the world. The better the ship, the more cargo it can take, the easier your build strategy becomes.

Involvement

I started working on Port City almost at the beginning of production in the new Brno studio. Throughout that time, the game has received positive feedback with an average rating of 4.5 on mobile platforms and over 5 million downloads. Wow!

Work on the project was both onsite and remote, as part of the team was based in the main office in Bratislava.

Technology stack

The game is built in the Unity game engine and in combination with C#. We used GIT a versioning tool, Jenkins + Git Actions for building and a bunch of third party libraries.

I worked with a couple of other programmers and during that time got to the level of a medior within company standards.

As a newbie, I needed to improve rapidly in both my soft and hard skills. Thus, my primary focus was to be involved in all aspects of game creation technically to expand my knowledge. Here are a few specific things I did on the project.

Scope of work

Designed and implemented multiple crucial game features both reliant on client and server communication using C# modern approaches and with that also took part in expanding project architecture and standards.

UI/UX is important!

Created and curated multiple visual UI elements this included building multiple complex popups, animating them using third party libraries or sometimes even designed them from scratch.

Performance

Heavily optimized rendering, object population, code for both Android and IOS limitations. Watched over the entire build and production process.