Auroch Digital and Sea of Thieves
Ahoy! In 2022, we raised our sails and started our two-year adventure sailing the seas with Rare, creating hearty cosmetics for Sea of Thieves.
Sea of Thieves offers the essential pirate experience, from sailing and fighting to exploring and looting – everything you need to live the pirate life and become a legend in your own right. With no set roles, you have complete freedom to approach the world, and other players, however you choose.
It’s always sad when it’s time to wrap up a project, especially one as fun to work on as Sea of Thieves, but we thought we’d take this opportunity to share some of the content created by our team and hear about the experience from them.
Auroch Digital’s Work-For-Hire on Sea of Thieves
At Auroch Digital, we don’t just make great games, we’re also available as a Work-For-Hire studio, offering our team of experts and our decades of experience to deliver high-quality results.
Working on an IP as well-known as Sea of Thieves was no easy undertaking. Since 2018, Rare’s team have done an incredible job steering the direction and success of the game and it recently reached an amazing milestone of 40 million players welcomed to the game across Xbox, Windows 10/11 and Steam – before adding boatloads of new players when it launched on PlayStation®5 earlier this year.
For our team understanding the IP and working towards the client’s goals for the IP was of the utmost importance.
Compared to our other Work-For-Hire projects, our support for Sea of Thieves was predominantly art-focused and required a streamlined cosmetic pipeline, where we could own every aspect of the process from start to finish.
Over the two years dedicated to this project, our team at Auroch Digital worked on over 100 different pieces of content for Sea of Thieves, including ship sets, clothing, emotes, pets, and more.
Our team is immensely proud of the work they’ve done for Sea of Thieves and Rare and here’s a look at some of the assets they created.
You can play Sea of Thieves on Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, Windows 10/11 and Steam.
Do you have a Work-For-Hire project you’d like to collaborate with us on?
Every co-development project is a valuable opportunity for our team to improve our own processes and techniques by learning from the expertise of our partners.
But they're also an opportunity to share our team’s expertise! We are experts in porting of all kinds, from mobile to PC, from PC to console, even from board games to video game. We work with large and established IPs, on asset and content creation, and much more. We also offer publishing services alongside our porting work with our in-house marketing department.
Now that this project is wrapped up, who knows where the tide will take us next. We’re looking for another adventure for our crew, whether that’s a new Work-For-Hire project or another co-development opportunity. Our team is excited to get started!
Are you interested in a Work-For-Hire project with Auroch Digital? Reach out to darkle@aurochdigital.com to discuss your Work-For-Hire project and we’ll be happy to see how Auroch Digital can help you.