Fleetyard Studios is a UK-based game studio focused on Starship Simulator — a space exploration sandbox built around long-form discovery, starship simulation, and player-driven stories.
Dan Govier founded Fleetyard Studios with his wife Claire in 2020, with the sole purpose of turning his childhood dream of living and working aboard a deep space exploration vessel into reality. Dan leverages his passions in science, engineering, architecture and astrophysics to ensure that every aspect of the game is as accurate as possible.
Dan is currently the sole developer of Starship Simulator, supported by Claire, who manages the game’s growing community and social media presence. The game’s music is composed by Orchestorm, and the audioscape is being developed by Jose Luis Gonzalez Castro, who previously worked on Elite Dangerous and many other successful titles.
Our collective goal is to create the deepest and most engaging space exploration experience possible.
Starship Simulator is our first commercial title: a space exploration sandbox set in a science-driven galaxy at immense scale. Players take on key shipboard roles and explore, investigate, and survive across deep space.
Headline features include seamless exploration across a scientifically accurate 1:1 Milky Way galaxy, first contact with diverse alien civilisations, highly interactive multi-deck starship interiors, fully simulated ship systems, deep ship/character customisation, and eight playable crew roles.
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