Golden HarbourGames
Independent game studio · Vladivostok ⇄ Sydney
We love games, so we make the ones we want to play: small, polished and easy to pick up, whoever you are. Three are out on Android and iPhone, and every one of them plays free in your browser.
01 / Games
Small, sharp games: on your phone from Google Play or the App Store, or in a browser tab.
NewStrategy · Simulation
A wildfire is heading for town. You don't fly the helicopters: you paint the map, and your fleet does the rest. Out now on Android and iPhone, free on PC and in your browser.
NewCard battler · Boxing
A boxing card battler. He shows you his next punch, and sometimes he's lying. Read him, build your combination, win three belts. Out now on Android and iPhone.
NewArcade · Space
The 2021 planet-hopper rebuilt: ten worlds, a wall of fire behind you, items for a bad moment, five suits and the classic endless run. Out now on Android and iPhone, free in your browser.
Drag to spin · arrows to step
Nothing plays there yet.
02 / What we care about
We were players long before we were a studio. Four things we hold ourselves to.
Every game here began as something one of us wanted to play and could not find. If we would not play it on our own phone on the train home, it does not ship.
No manual, no account, no wall across the story. A child, a parent and someone with thirty years of strategy games behind them should all find their way in within a minute.
A release is a start, not a finish. New builds go out most weeks, the log below shows what changed, and what players tell us goes into the next one.
VR, AR, a robot on the desk, a game inside a Reddit post. We try new hardware and odd ideas to find ways of playing that do not exist yet, and we show the results, good or not.
03 / Experiments
VR, AR, robots and odd ideas. Not all of them become games. All of them teach us something about play.
Robots · Tools
Eva and Adam, taken apart
Two humanoid robots live in our workshop. We write the software that makes one of them see, listen and pull faces, and we built a 3D guide that takes both of them apart screw by screw.
In progress
VR
Greybeard: a storm you stand in
Five minutes on the deck of a ship off Cape Horn in April 1788, in a headset. A wave taller than the masts is coming, and you have two hands.
Prototype
Art direction
One wheel, four tables
In Souls & Estates one mouse wheel now takes you from a single peasant yard to a table map of central Russia, through four dioramas of the same place.
You can try it
04 / Log
What changed lately, newest first. Every game on this site is a living build.
Roach Invasion joins the port: one small cockroach, a huge kitchen and a slipper. An early build, made with VR Lab in Vladivostok.
The site gets a workshop: an Experiments page for our VR, AR and robot work, with a forum. The long read about the studio moved to a page of its own.
0.104: icons on every screen and plain English in place of the old Russian terms, after a meetup told us there was too much to read.
Orbital Jump Reloaded is on the App Store for iPhone, with Game Center leaderboards and achievements.
0.100: one mouse wheel now zooms from a village yard to the whole estate, the district as a table of miniatures, and a map table of central Russia.
1.0.2 on the App Store: Game Center, and a loading card on the first start, so the map is ready when you arrive.
Punch League and AeroFire Command: Fire Season are on the App Store for iPhone. Same games, no data sent.
Orbital Jump Reloaded 1.0 is on Google Play: ten worlds, items, suits, the endless run. Free, no ads. The same build plays here.
Build 0.41: every building has levels and gates, a roads tool, district and Moscow plates on the map.
A guided first year: nine framed steps, the Steward's Book and a three-minute intro film.
Site refresh: Orbital Jump joins the port, Souls & Estates gets a Russian page, Punch League is on RuStore.
The 2021 phone game is back, rebuilt for the browser: one button, planet to planet, ahead of the sun.
1.134 on Google Play and RuStore: the whole career is free, purchases only in the shop.
The Russian edition: every screen, event and name in Russian.
Fire Season is out of beta on Google Play, with a Supporter pack to keep the fleet flying.
Out of beta on Google Play.
Build 833: a new score, sound effects and radio voices in seven languages.
0.7.3: coast-down flight, song tiers, grades, fast-forward, arrivals and beat visuals.
Open beta 1.127: Kai's career corner, a new motion set and a short-finish rule.
Google Play Games sign-in and a live shop.
Anonymous play statistics on Android, with an opt-out in Settings. Details in the privacy policy.
05 / Channel
Short films from the games: the physics, the history and the fights behind them.
In 2021 our game opened with 20 lines of dialogue. We cut it to 4
This cat is not allowed to cheat | What changed #1
We rebuilt our game's interface 9 times in 2 weeks | What changed #4
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Our game's first test came back with two words: doesn't jump
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06 / Contact
Press, players, publishers, or someone who has driven the M60 in a Leaf: we read everything.
contact@goldenharbourgames.com