Corsairs Legacy Game Development Team
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Today we will be answering your questions, and in today’s devlog you’ll get to know:
Well, let’s start with the team. The project is currently being developed by a company called Mauris that was founded in 2013 and its current director is Volodymyr Bondarenko. Since 2013, Mauris has developed over 80 projects for companies like Bosch, Freedom Finance, Nomad Insurance, Hettich, Compendium, Bionorica, Teva, Sandoz, BI Group.
After talking to the art director of “Sea Dogs 4”, Yuri Rogach, we decided to make a pilot version of an RPG in 3D and understand the complexity of development. We decided that it’s entirely possible and Mauris started to search for specialists in a PC game dev field that would be responsible for developing the future game. We spent 4 months on market research, analyzing pirate projects, defining a movement vector, and forming a team. With the growth of the project, we started expanding our team, and here’s who works on the game today:
Our team liaises with developers of the original “Sea Dogs”, but None of the Seaward members are contributing to the development of Corsairs Legacy at the moment.
Now, let’s talk about Unity and Unreal Engine. Mauris always emphasized high-quality development and the first 4 employees, including the director, are programmers. Having a lot of experience in development, we understand that it’s better to work with technologies that the team has competence in. Using those technologies makes it possible to make the best possible product. At the time of creating a project’s strategy, we were talking to the leading programmer of the “City of Abandoned Ships”, Eduard Zaitsev, who had long experience of developing in Unity. He thinks that to create a game similar to “Sea Dogs” it doesn’t matter whether to choose Unity or Unreal Engine. A good result can be achieved in both engines.
And lastly, we’ll answer why we can’t unite with BlackMark Studio to achieve the result. There are many reasons. The first one is – BlackMark team consists of modders, who develop a game on Storm Engine in their free time. Our team consists of Unity programmers who develop Corsairs Legacy full-time. As a result, we have different work inputs and specializations.
The second reason is that we make different games for different audiences. BlackMark Studio initially focuses on the audience of “Sea Dogs”, on people who know the game well and would like to see an interesting and complicated sequel. Our goal, on the other hand, is to attract many new audiences to Corsairs Legacy that would give a new life to the setting.
To find out all the details about the dev team of the game - watch the full devlog video :) Subscribe to our YouTube channels in order not to miss news about the Corsairs Legacy development!
Official Corsairs Legacy YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCtvxcqkgrIC3fHpSpKSeMnA/
Official Russian YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/SaveThePirate/
Today we will be answering your questions, and in today’s devlog you’ll get to know:
- How many people are developing “Corsairs Legacy”? Who are those people?
- Why are we developing the game in Unity and not in Unreal Engine?
- Do we contact people that were developing “Sea Dogs” (with the original team Seaward)?
- Why can’t our team unite with BlackMark Studio to achieve shared results?
Well, let’s start with the team. The project is currently being developed by a company called Mauris that was founded in 2013 and its current director is Volodymyr Bondarenko. Since 2013, Mauris has developed over 80 projects for companies like Bosch, Freedom Finance, Nomad Insurance, Hettich, Compendium, Bionorica, Teva, Sandoz, BI Group.
After talking to the art director of “Sea Dogs 4”, Yuri Rogach, we decided to make a pilot version of an RPG in 3D and understand the complexity of development. We decided that it’s entirely possible and Mauris started to search for specialists in a PC game dev field that would be responsible for developing the future game. We spent 4 months on market research, analyzing pirate projects, defining a movement vector, and forming a team. With the growth of the project, we started expanding our team, and here’s who works on the game today:
- three Unity programmers;
- level designer;
- lighting specialist;
- environment modeler;
- character modeler;
- editor;
- voiceover specialist;
- video editing specialist;
- designer;
- illustrator;
- two animators;
- back-end programmer;
- special effects specialist;
- translator.
Our team liaises with developers of the original “Sea Dogs”, but None of the Seaward members are contributing to the development of Corsairs Legacy at the moment.
Now, let’s talk about Unity and Unreal Engine. Mauris always emphasized high-quality development and the first 4 employees, including the director, are programmers. Having a lot of experience in development, we understand that it’s better to work with technologies that the team has competence in. Using those technologies makes it possible to make the best possible product. At the time of creating a project’s strategy, we were talking to the leading programmer of the “City of Abandoned Ships”, Eduard Zaitsev, who had long experience of developing in Unity. He thinks that to create a game similar to “Sea Dogs” it doesn’t matter whether to choose Unity or Unreal Engine. A good result can be achieved in both engines.
And lastly, we’ll answer why we can’t unite with BlackMark Studio to achieve the result. There are many reasons. The first one is – BlackMark team consists of modders, who develop a game on Storm Engine in their free time. Our team consists of Unity programmers who develop Corsairs Legacy full-time. As a result, we have different work inputs and specializations.
The second reason is that we make different games for different audiences. BlackMark Studio initially focuses on the audience of “Sea Dogs”, on people who know the game well and would like to see an interesting and complicated sequel. Our goal, on the other hand, is to attract many new audiences to Corsairs Legacy that would give a new life to the setting.
To find out all the details about the dev team of the game - watch the full devlog video :) Subscribe to our YouTube channels in order not to miss news about the Corsairs Legacy development!
Official Corsairs Legacy YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCtvxcqkgrIC3fHpSpKSeMnA/
Official Russian YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/SaveThePirate/