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Starting in 2012, they chose Unity for its... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/albion-online-building-a-decade-long-cross-platform-mmo-from-a-single-unity-project-f17ocycsm og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/f17OcYcsm.png og:image:alt: Albion Online: Building a decade-long cross-platform MMO from a single Unity project og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Albion Online: Building a decade-long cross-platform MMO from a single Unity project **[Unity](https://daily.dev/sources/unity)** · 4 min read · 14 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary The developers of Albion Online share how they built a decade-long cross-platform MMO using a single Unity project. Starting in 2012, they chose Unity for its cross-platform capabilities and used it purely as a frontend rendering/UI layer while keeping game logic server-side in an MVC-like architecture. Key decisions included a cartoonish, low-texture art style optimized for mobile memory and readability, platform-specific UI profiles within one project, and designing combat features to work across all input methods. The team also highlights how player feedback shaped the game's evolution from a 5v5 concept into massive hundreds-of-players battles. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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