the brief
Rancher: A New Life is a casual farming and life sim from Sim Farm S.A., published with PlayWay: take over a rural property, raise animals, grow crops, renovate the homestead, and trade city stress for slow mornings. Currently in development, headed for a 2026 release.
Eleven months on the team so far — gameplay features, refactoring of aging systems, and a share of the task management.
engineUnity
platformPC
team size3–5
duration11 months
languagesC#
what I owned
- Performance optimization — profiling and optimization passes to keep the ranch running smoothly as content grew.
- UI framework — built the UI framework the game's screens are constructed on.
- Refactoring & task management — reworked legacy gameplay code and helped keep the team's task board in order.
