WHAT THEY DO

Gaming builds original games on the company’s own worlds — first among them Veyra, the world of our novels: Skjorn and Eirik’s frozen north and Akaru’s south, one shared world under one bible, its magic always costing something.

The game on the bench is an action role-playing game of settlement and survival. Its first build is a co-op slice set on a north-coast cove — working title Iceblood Cove — where settlers gather, raise a longhouse piece by piece, and hold it against the frost. It is in development: designed and specified, not yet built, and announced with no dates and no promises.

HOW WE DO IT

• Unreal Engine 5 — the whole department works in the one engine, and every asset is built for it: real-world scale, clean pivots, detail levels thought through.
• Built the MMO way from the first brick — dedicated server, replication first, a world that persists — so the small build carries the big one’s architecture.
• Assets are made in-house, in code, and entered one by one in the department’s Asset Catalogue. If it isn’t in the catalogue, the department doesn’t own it.
• Study, build, verify: the great games are the school, real artefacts are the lessons, and a level exists only where finished work has been checked by eye.

WHAT THEY’VE DONE

• An Asset Catalogue opened, with its first three entries built and delivered: 001 — the Veyra Longhouse, the settlement’s first building; 002 — a Northman’s sword, measured at just under a metre; 003 — a Northman’s round shield, painted in the Ember Line’s quarters. All three made in code and verified render by render.
• Written studies of the benchmark games — New World and The Elder Scrolls Online — filed as the department’s school.
• The first build fully specified: twenty-one systems to build, seven stubbed honestly, fifteen ruled out — a work queue, not a claim. The assets stand importable today, honestly labelled: flat colours, with their texture and detail passes still to come.