The Journal
Honest devlogs on building Anchor Point — an open-world multiplayer fishing sim made solo in Unreal Engine 5. Scope, systems, the ocean, and what it actually takes to ship a big game alone.
The seafloor under Anchor Point isn't sculpted — it's surveyed. How 64 × 64 km of Alaska was cut from real GEBCO depth data, what the real thing gives you for free, and where the data ends and the design begins.
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Most games treat weather as a skybox. In Anchor Point it sets prices, boat speed, which fish are feeding and whether you make it home — one server-driven forecast that turns a cosmetic feature into the spine of the game.
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One developer, one engine, one ocean. How ruthless scope, real-world bathymetry, systems that reinforce each other, and a Monte-Carlo balance pass make a solo, AAA-flavoured game genuinely possible in UE5 — and where I chose to draw the line.
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