Your crew operates the instruments you rely on to command. Losing someone also changes what you can see and do in this strategy game.
About Ship's Company
Games worth
coming back to.
We develop original games and restore
older titles for today's hardware.
Independent game design & engineering
Our games
We're developing two strategy games,
each with a different approach to command.
Build a fortress and draft an army for a siege fought above ground and through the tunnels below. Each round gives you a chance to change your plan.
About Troles vs GubberlinsPorts & restoration
A port can start
with the executable.
When source code is lost, we use decompilation and reverse engineering to recover how a game works. We then rebuild its systems for current hardware using the original executable and game data as references.
Our experience includes 16-bit DOS games and early 3D engines built before DirectX 8 and 9.
From executable to modern build
Recovered code and data tell us how the original worked. We use that evidence to rebuild its systems in a current engine.
How we restore a gameRecover the game's rules
Trace combat and movement through the executable. Reconstruct mission scripts and timing, including behaviour that was never documented.
Decode the game data
Read proprietary level and media formats. Build conversion tools that preserve how the original resources connect, so a current engine can use them.
Rebuild the runtime
Implement recovered systems in a current engine, with native C++ where needed. Keep simulation timing independent of display refresh.
Compare with the original
Check reconstructed routines against reference behaviour and replay recorded orders. Test the assembled game to catch changes the individual checks miss.
Tell us which game you have in mind and what materials survive.
The studio
We like getting
into the details.
Samoyed Studios is an independent game design studio. We're making Ship's Company and Troles vs Gubberlins alongside our work on older games.
Both sides of the work involve close attention to how a game behaves. A crew member's station can shape a whole strategy game. In a restoration, an animation frame can explain why an attack lands when it does.
We enjoy working through those details, whether we're designing the rules or figuring out how the original developers made them work.
Tell us what
you're working on.
Contact Daniel about a game restoration
or a partnership on one of our original titles.