ArrKaboom — Press Kit
arrkaboom.app · Free to play in any browser · Contact: support@arrkaboom.app
Fact sheet
| Developer | ArrKaboom — a one-person studio in New York, USA. Designed and playtested with the developer's father. |
| Status | Live now at arrkaboom.app; updated most weeks. |
| Platforms | Any modern browser on phone, tablet or desktop. Installable to the home screen (PWA). Steam edition planned for 2027. |
| Price | Free. ArrKaboom Premium is $4.99/month or $29.99/year (cancel any time) for every captain, 60/80/100-point games and extra world options. Anyone who brings friends earns half of every payment those friends make — as Premium time, or as cash through Stripe for adults. No ads. |
| Players | 1–6: solo vs bots, online rooms with friends (join by link, guests welcome), or pass & play on one device. |
| Session length | 20–60 minutes depending on table size and mode. |
| Languages | English, French, Spanish. |
| Genre | Strategy / digital board game with naval combat. |
| Tech | A single self-contained HTML file (~1.2 MB). Three.js for the 3D globe, Firebase Realtime Database for multiplayer, Stripe for payments. |
| Links | Play: arrkaboom.app · Discord: [DISCORD INVITE] · Press contact: support@arrkaboom.app |
Description
Short. ArrKaboom is a settlement-building and naval-combat strategy game played on a rotating 3D planet tiled with 252 hexes. Found coastal settlements, harvest lumber, clay, sheep, sugarcane, stone and gold, grow towns into capitals, launch sloops and frigates, raise forts — and then take the fight to your rivals with cannon, soldiers, pirates and a volcano. Everyone plays from their own device via a link; nothing to install.
Long. The planet is the point. ArrKaboom's world is a sphere, not a board — you spin it, zoom it and sail around it, and geography matters: every captain starts at sea and founds a first settlement on the coast, so the whole game is a fight over shorelines. Turns open with a harvest from the land you hold. You spend it on roads, towns and ships, trade with the bank or your rivals, and decide whether to build or to burn. Ships upgrade from sloop to schooner to frigate to flagship; keeps, castles and palaces guard your coast; soldiers march overland or ride ships ashore. The Kraken surfaces to block tiles and plunder neighbours, pirates roam, the volcano erupts, and late in the game the space age arrives with rockets and a beam. Play to a point total, or play Total War, where the last empire standing takes the sea. Bots at three difficulties fill any empty seat, so a game is always one tap away.
Key features
- A real planet: 252 tiles on a rotating globe, with islands, rivers, lakes and a bigger-world option.
- Build and destroy: settlements grow into cities, metropolises and capitals; cannon, forts, soldiers, pirates and the volcano take them back down.
- Ships that matter: four hull classes, blockades, shore bombardment, boarding troops, and a Circumnavigator title for sailing the world.
- Two ways to win: victory points (20–100) or Total War.
- Instant multiplayer: create a room, share a link; friends join as guests from any browser. Bots fill empty seats.
- Family-friendly, not toothless: designed with the developer's father across hundreds of games.
- Weekly world: one shared seed each week, so everyone can play the same planet.
- English, French and Spanish.
Screenshots and video
Right-click to save. Higher-resolution files and a trailer: [TRAILER LINK]. All assets may be used freely for coverage of ArrKaboom.
Logo
Wordmark: Arr in lava red, Kaboom in gold. Files: [LOGO FILES] (PNG on transparent, SVG).
Boilerplate
Contact
ArrKaboom · support@arrkaboom.app · Discord: [DISCORD INVITE]