Learn about the technical architecture enabling Albion Online, a hardcore PvP MMO, to seamlessly scale across PC, mobile, and console. Get insights from Sandbox Interactive's engineers on their single Unity project, decoupled simulation layer, and cross-platform balancing approach.

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Sandbox Interactive's engineering leads share how they built Albion Online, a cross-platform PvP MMO, using a single Unity project that ships to PC, Mac, Linux, iOS, Android, and Xbox. Key architectural decisions include platform-specific UI profiles with a shared codebase, a decoupled three-layer client architecture (input, simulation, visualization) that keeps game logic independent of Unity's rendering, and Android as the performance baseline. The team uses Jenkins-based CI/CD for daily multi-platform builds, plans to migrate from the Built-In Render Pipeline to SRP, and designed controls from scratch for each platform rather than porting layouts. Server infrastructure was later split into regional servers to reduce latency and grow the global playerbase.

Architecting Albion Online: Building a PvP MMO to Scale Across Platforms

<p>Something for Josh Strife Hayes to comment on. 👍</p>
